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“It is possible
to shoot a man
in self-defense
and still notice
how his red blood
decorates the snow.”
— Audre Lorde, Undersong: Chosen Poems Old and New
Tagged: Self-Defense, Blood, Decoration
“Difference must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic”
— Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Tagged: differences, Creativity, Dialectic Spark
“The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house”
— Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
Tagged: Dismantle, White Patriarchy
“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid”
— Audre Lorde, The Cancer Journals: Special Edition
Tagged: Courage, strength, Fear, Vision
“Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.”
— Marva Collins, via Tumblr
Tagged: Originality
“Always trust yourself, think for yourself, act for yourself, speak for yourself. Be yourself!”
— Melania Trump, via twitter.com
Tagged: Plagiarism
“My fullest concentration of energy is available to me only when I integrate all the parts of who I am, openly, allowing power from particular sources of my living to flow back and forth freely through all my different selves, without the restriction of externally imposed definition.”
— Audre Lorde, Social Theory: The Multicultural, Global, and Classic Readings
Tagged: Concentration Of Energy, Transparency, Liberation
“Even when officers get caught, they know they’ll be investigated by their friends, and put on paid leave. My colleagues would laughingly refer to this as a free vacation. It isn’t a punishment. And excessive force is almost always deemed acceptable in our courts and among our grand juries. Prosecutors are tight with law enforcement, and share the same values and ideas.”
— Redditt Hudson, Being a cop showed me just how racist and violent the police are. There’s only one fix.
Tagged: Police Abuse, Lax Punishment, Police Dismantalization
“But more and more, I felt like I couldn’t do the work I set out to do. I was participating in a profoundly corrupt criminal justice system. I could not, in good conscience, participate in a system that was so intentionally unfair and racist. So after five years on the job, I quit.”
— Redditt Hudson, Being a cop showed me just how racist and violent the police are. There’s only one fix.
Tagged: Corrupt Criminal Justice System
“because white men can't 
police their imagination 
black men are dying”
— Claudia Rankine, Citizen
Tagged: White Men, Policing, Black Death