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“I'm not nostalgic. I'm looking back to mine the past for what it can help us with right now, and for what it can help us pass on and create. - Demita Frazier”
― Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective

“In white culture, forgiveness is synonymous with letting go. In my culture, I believe we carry pain until we can reconcile with it through ceremony. Pain is not framed like a problem with a solution. I don’t even know that white people see transcendence the way we do. I’m not sure that their dichotomies apply to me.”
― Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries

“The main reason is that the women of Combahee not only saw themselves as “radicalsâ€� but also considered themselves socialists. They were not acting or writing against Marxism, but, in their own words, they looked to “extendâ€� Marxist analysis to incorporate an understanding of the oppression of Black women.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor. How We Get Free (Kindle Locations 158-160). Haymarket Books.”
― Keeanaga-Yamahatta Taylor

“We are not ready to fight because we love fighting. We are ready to fight because we are worth fighting for.”
― Zoé Samudzi, As Black As Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation