Barbara Smith

"To organize is to believe in the power of people united."

"Our collective memory is our collective power."

"The work of love is the work of seeing and being seen."

"We are capable of imagining worlds beyond the ones we inhabit."

"To refuse is to insist on your own existence."

"Community care practices are blueprints for the world we want."

"Our intersecting struggles demand intersecting solutions."

"The power to define ourselves is the power to liberate ourselves."

"We must tend to our own liberation as carefully as we tend to others'."

"The work continues because the work is never finished."

"Our visions of freedom must expand to include everyone."

"To build community is to build resistance."

"The personal relationships we nurture shape the movements we build."

"We are the ones we have been waiting for to change this world."

"Our capacity to imagine differently is our capacity to live differently."

"The truth lives in the spaces between what is spoken and what is silent."

"To practice solidarity is to practice the world we want to create."

"Our collective power is infinite when we move together."

"The personal is political, and understanding ourselves means understanding the systems that shape us."

"Black feminism isn't about replacing one hierarchy with another; it's about dismantling hierarchies altogether."

"We cannot heal what we refuse to acknowledge."

"Love, when rooted in justice, becomes a revolutionary act."

"Education is the tool by which the oppressed free themselves."

"Community care is not charity—it is survival."

"The work of freedom is never finished; each generation must claim it anew."

"Our stories matter because we have been told they don't."

"Intersectionality teaches us that we cannot fight one battle at a time."

"Silence is complicity; speaking truth is a moral obligation."

"We are not born hating; we are taught to hate."

"Peace requires that we first make peace with ourselves."