December 2010
16 posts
“On capacity, I think Ng’ethe Meina of Social Justice Leadership said it best in...”
– —Morgan Bassichis
“Ableism is colonial. It is employed to maintain an ideal body of a white...”
– —Qwi-Li Driskill (found through Aaron).
“We must work as if we are the last generation capable of work—for it is...”
– —Alice Walker.
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are...”
– —Marianne Williamson from A Return To Love.
“and I gotta tell you
that my sincere love for real is
for my peeps my family...”
– —Suheir Hammad from We Spent the 4th of July in Bed (found through Coya).
“how we are with each other is critical to our success in the long run. We can...”
– —Anasa Troutman from Standing Forward: Thoughts from the Forward Stance Leadership Initiative.
“in any situation we find ourselves in, it’s never too late to stop being...”
– —Melody Beattie.
“Safety, to us, means being able to be comfortable in our skin, having the...”
– —from Safety: An Abolitionist Vision.
“sometimes the unknown place we’re called to enter is what we don’t...”
– —Melody Beattie.
“What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.”
– —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The place to begin is silence, so you can hear your soul speak in (her) unique...”
– —Chrystos on advice for new writers.
“Coming back to capitalism is like walking into a brick wall. It’s like being...”
– —Auora Levins Morales from Shock.
“ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.”
– —Marilyn Ferguson.
“an honorable human relationship—that is, one in which two people have the...”
– —Adrienne Rich.
“In your love I am sometimes redeemed
a stranger to myself.”
– —June Jordan
“But my adoption, the facts about my birth, is both ancient and modern history...”
– —Mariama Lockington from Searching (an adoptee on the verge of a nervous breakdown)