American - Activist | January 4, 1981 -
There is no separation between the black community and the LGBT community. As a black, queer woman myself, I often have to assert, right, that it's not one or the other but that I am all of these things.
Alicia Garza
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I need to create an environment where I can be my best self, and that means being unapologetic about saying no to things that don't serve me or move me closer to my purpose and the things that I care about the most.
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Sometimes you have to put a wrench in the gears to get people to listen.
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How do we stop violence, looting, and riots? The way that we stop that is by making sure that people have the things that they need to thrive.
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We are clear that all lives matter, but we live in a world where that's not actually happening in practice. So if we want to get to the place where all lives matter, then we have to make sure that black lives matter, too.
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Ultimately, policing in and of itself is problematic.
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I'll be honest with you, I really struggle with the conversation around gun control.
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Whether or not you call it Black Lives Matter, whether or not you put a hashtag in front of it, whether or not you call it the Movement for Black Lives, all of that is irrelevant. Because there was resistance before Black Lives Matter, and there will be resistance after Black Lives Matter.
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The police are not taking accountability for the violence that they enact in our communities, and yet there isn't as much outrage about that as there is about some broken windows and lost property.
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The biggest misconception about Black Lives Matter is that BLM is just one entity; Black Lives Matter is an organization and a network. We are a part of the movement, but we are not the movement.
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Police violence is the tip of the iceberg when it relates to the conditions overall of black people across the globe.
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The best advice I ever got as an organizer was that if you can organize your family, you're a good organizer.
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