Angela Y. Davis

"Art is a form of resistance that teaches us how to dream otherwise."

"We must move beyond symbolic gestures to substantive change."

"Education should be the practice of freedom."

"Our minds are colonized; we must decolonize our imagination."

"Community cannot for one moment exist as just an idea."

"The struggle for freedom and justice is never finished."

"To free people from the desire to be free is the greatest form of violence."

"I think of abolition as the end of the carceral state."

"Love is a practice, not a feeling."

"We are all implicated in structures we did not create."

"Feminist consciousness is a consciousness of contradiction."

"The personal is always already political."

"We cannot afford to romanticize suffering."

"Prisons are a technology of social control."

"Dreams are not luxuries for the oppressed."

"Hope is a necessary ingredient for any meaningful struggle."

"Knowledge itself becomes an instrument of liberation."

"The struggle is our life; this is not a phase."

"We inherit vocabularies of protest from our ancestors."

"Authenticity is a practice, not an essence."

"To struggle means to create the possibility of freedom."

"Memory is a site of resistance."

"Democracy cannot be achieved through violence."

"We must learn to think globally and act locally."

"Art provides a language for what cannot be said in ordinary discourse."

"The act of imagining alternatives is itself a form of resistance."

"We are responsible for the world we create."

"Solidarity is an action, not a sentiment."

"The archive is an extension of the process of reading the past."

"To be a revolutionary is to learn the meaning of responsibility."