Imagination Quotes

The ability to see what isn't there yet. Dreamers and builders on the power of 'what if.'

16884 quotes

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"Our minds are colonized; we must decolonize our imagination."
Angela Y. Davis
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"The act of imagining alternatives is itself a form of resistance."
Angela Y. Davis
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"Imagination is the first step toward liberation."
Angela Y. Davis
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"The most radical thing we can do is imagine otherwise."
Angela Y. Davis
A
"Imagination without action is merely fantasy."
Angela Y. Davis
A
"To imagine liberation is to begin to live it."
Angela Y. Davis
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"We must imagine a future where reproductive technology liberates rather than enslaves."
Shulamith Firestone
S
"Imagination is the first act of freedom; we must imagine liberation before we can achieve it."
Shulamith Firestone
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"Intersectionality asks us to imagine different futures, not just critique the present."
Kimberlé Crenshaw
K
"Intersectionality asks us to imagine what freedom could look like for everyone."
Kimberlé Crenshaw
K
"Intersectionality calls us to imagine different futures together."
Kimberlé Crenshaw
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"Imagination is the first act of resistance against an oppressive order."
Andrea Dworkin
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"Imagination is the birthplace of all liberation."
bell hooks
B
"The future belongs to women who dare to imagine it differently."
Betty Friedan
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"We must imagine a world without sex roles, without the institution of motherhood."
Shulamith Firestone
B
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Barbara Smith
B
"Imagination is the beginning of creation."
Barbara Smith
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"A person without imagination is like a teabag without hot water."
Gloria Steinem
b
"Imagination is the faculty that allows us to envision liberation"
bell hooks
A
"Imagination is crucial to the work of liberation."
Angela Davis
A
"We have to imagine ourselves free."
Angela Davis
A
"We must always imagine the future as possible."
Angela Davis
b
"The imagination is crucial to the project of liberation."
bell hooks
B
"The stories we tell shape the futures we can imagine."
Barbara Smith
B
"The most radical act is to imagine a better world and work toward it."
Barbara Smith
B
"Our collective imagination is our most dangerous tool."
Barbara Smith
B
"We are capable of imagining worlds beyond the ones we inhabit."
Barbara Smith
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"The challenge is to imagine and create the world anew."
Angela Davis
"We must imagine ourselves into existence in ways that have never been tried before."
Audre Lorde
"The future belongs to those who can imagine it."
Vandana Shiva