American - Activist | January 4, 1981 -
For us, #BlackLivesMatter is really a re-humanization project. It's a way for us to love each other again, to love ourselves, and to project that love into the world so that we can transform it.
Alicia Garza
LoveWorldWayProjectUsTransform
We need to make sure we're creating spaces to create new leaders and new types of leadership.
LeadershipCreateCreatingNewNeed
I am not ready to give up this country without a fight.
FightI AmCountryReadyWithoutUp
We need the best and the brightest thinkers, strategists, coders, surveillance experts, tech geeks, and disruptors to utilize all of the tools we have available to us to build the world that we want to see. A world where black lives matter. A world where all lives matter.
BestWorldBlackToolsWantBuild
Just like we don't live in a two-dimensional world, we don't live two-dimensional lives.
LiveWorldJustLikeLives
I don't even know what a hashtag is. You don't turn a hashtag into a movement - people turn things into a movement.
PeopleYouKnowMovementTurnEven
Quite frankly, black folks have always been at the core of what it's meant to make this nation human.
BlackHumanNationAlwaysCoreBeen
Black Lives Matter started from a post that I put on Facebook after the acquittal of George Zimmerman. I woke up in the middle of the night sobbing, just trying to process what had happened and wanting to find community around being in a lot of grief and having a lot of rage.
CommunityGriefNightBlackProcess
For me, it's clear Beyonce sees herself as a part of the movement for black lives and believes that black lives matter - and ultimately, that's what matters.
MeBlackMatterMattersMovement
My mom has this thing where she doesn't sugarcoat stuff.
MomSheWhereStuffThing
When people say, 'Well, I don't talk to my family because they're all conservatives,' or 'I don't talk to my family because they're racist,' I'm, like, 'No, no, no; that's exactly who you need to be talking to.'
FamilyPeopleTalkingYouSayTalk
Saying 'black lives matter' both literally and figuratively restores people's dignity.
PeopleSayingBlackDignityMatter
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