Creativity Quotes

Where does inspiration come from? These quotes explore the mysterious process of making something new.

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"Creativity is resistance when it challenges the status quo"
H. Rap Brown
"Creativity in organizing tactics keeps movements fresh and effective."
Black Panther Party
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"Creativity is resistance when used to challenge injustice."
H. Rap Brown
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"Creativity is an act of rebellion."
Angela Y. Davis
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"Imagination is the seed of revolution."
Assata Shakur
"Our people have the creativity and intelligence to solve our problems."
Black Panther Party
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"Creativity is how we envision new possibilities."
Assata Shakur
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"Build, don't destroy; create, don't hate."
Stokely Carmichael
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"The imagination is where liberation begins; we must first envision freedom before we can create it."
Angela Y. Davis
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"Creativity requires solitude and discipline."
Andrea Dworkin
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"Creativity is the power to imagine alternatives."
Shulamith Firestone
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"Creativity is the antidote to despair."
Shulamith Firestone
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"Creativity flourishes when we are free to think and speak."
Assata Shakur
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"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted."
John Lewis
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"Life is to be lived creatively, or it is not to be lived at all."
John Lewis
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"Creativity flourishes only when we shed imposed identities."
Shulamith Firestone
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"Imagination is a key faculty we must develop to envision freedom."
Angela Y. Davis
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"Creativity is a form of resistance and an expression of freedom."
Angela Y. Davis
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"Creativity is an act of refusal against conformity."
Andrea Dworkin
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"Creativity must like love embrace the void and the formless and the half-created."
Germaine Greer
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"Innovation in social justice requires us to think beyond the frameworks we inherited."
Kimberlé Crenshaw
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"Drag queens are just women who are more female than women."
Gloria Steinem
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"Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel like I should be doing something else."
Gloria Steinem
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"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction."
Gloria Steinem
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"The most creative thing in the world is a woman in love."
Gloria Steinem
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"We create meaning through our choices and actions"
bell hooks
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"Creativity is the expression of our unique voice"
bell hooks
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"The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own."
Betty Friedan
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"The capacity to imagine shapes our ability to create social change."
Angela Y. Davis
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"Boredom is not a legitimate female trait."
Germaine Greer