Imarisha Quotes & Sayings

If you can't swallow your pride, you can't lead. Even the highest mountain had animals that step on it. — Jack Weatherford

You will learn by reading,
But you will understand with LOVE. — Rumi

hipsters and entrepreneurs were complicated locusts. they ate up everything in sight, but they meant well. — Walidah Imarisha

But there was so much injustice. As soon as one field of hatred and oppression was burned, another crop came into harvest. It never ended and Jane grew tired. — Walidah Imarisha

Why this reluctance to make the change? We fear the process of reeducation. — Isaac Asimov

Together they unlocked potential in one another. They worked hard and played harder, until the work felt like play. Everything — Walidah Imarisha

I knew it!
Cards fly everywhere, as if he had them hidden in his gym shorts. — Cassie Mae

You like the party?
Is it in honour of anything?
My cat's birthday.
Where's your cat?
I don't know, he ran away. — Cassandra Clare

Our ancestors dreamed us up and then bent reality to create us. — Walidah Imarisha

We Black people cannot outrun our demons. Nor should we ever want to. We will embrace them as our lost Beloveds, and listen to the songs they sing to bring us through the darkness. - Walidah — Walidah Imarisha

What's useful about Oregon as a case study is that Oregon was bold enough to write it down," Imarisha told me. "But the same ideology, policies, and practices that shaped Oregon shaped every state in the Union, as well as this nation as a whole. — Anonymous

I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws. — Neil Gaiman

Historically, psychologists have looked at introversion as the absence of extroversion. They measure extroversion, and if you are low in it, then you are considered an introvert. This perpetuates the perception of introversion as negative space, and introverted activities as not really doing anything. We need to train ourselves, and others, out of this idea. We need to start seeing doing nothing (or reading, or working alone on projects, or whatever it is we do to recharge) as activities that are as valid as any social event. — Sophia Dembling

We are what we are, but it is not evil. I have lived a long time, and I've seen real evil, remember? People who hate because others do not fit within their idea of normal are evil. People who would hunt and hurt those who are different are evil. People who subjugate those they perceive to be weaker, in the name of their perversion of righteousness, they are evil. You look nothing like evil." Jackie — Walidah Imarisha

While the larger white society lives in terror of liberated Blackness, of the "demons" unleashed coming after them, we know many of our spirits haunt us out of love, out of a desire for all that was unfairly stolen from them. — Walidah Imarisha

Because many of the people who were taken by the wasting disease happened to be white, God was not a viable culprit. — Walidah Imarisha

He turned and looked her solemnly in the eyes. "Is it too much to ask for a happy ending?" She smiled sadly. "I don't think there are any happy endings left. — Walidah Imarisha

I have a theory that life is gathering the raw materials, and when we die, we get to make patterns out of our lives and relive them in whatever order we want. That way I can spend forever repeating the days when I was really happy, and never have to experience any of the sad days. So that's how you live a really great life. You make sure you have enough good days that you want to go back to. — Robyn Schneider

the ways Black people are portrayed as the ultimate evil to justify historically and currently our exploitation, containment, and murders; the fact that for Black people and other people of color, the history of slavery, genocide, white supremacy, and colonialism is the only true horror story, and it is one we continue to live every day; and the fact that resistance of the oppressed to these structures has always been seen as the most frightful abomination that could be birthed. Through — Walidah Imarisha

yourself to sleep at night. Bleed your weasel. — Anthony Doerr

Words without action are like wheels without traction. It is how you live that counts. — Geoff Thompson

Plate after plate sparkled under Glenda's hands. Nothing cleans stubborn stains like suppressed anger. — Terry Pratchett