Imarisha Walidah Quotes & Sayings

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

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

If you were to ask me what I couldn't do without, it would be sashimi. — Bjorn Ulvaeus

In a democracy, citizens pass judgment on their government, and if they are kept in the dark about what their government is doing, they cannot be in a position to make well-grounded decisions. — Peter Singer

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

Nor is he liberal who gives with pain; for he would prefer the wealth to the noble act, and this is not characteristic of a liberal man. But no more will the liberal man take from wrong sources; for such taking is not characteristic of the man who sets no store by wealth. — Aristotle.

The Fact That You Have The Ability To Stand On Stage And Sing While You're Crying Is So Brave. — Demi Lovato

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

They're getting more and more experience on what to expect, and the Hellboy audience is such a faithful and fanatic audience as I am, and you have to really be very open about what you do. — Guillermo Del Toro

Where was the respect? The boys all looked like girls and the girls all looked like whores. Clearly, the country was already halfway in the shit. — Robert Harris

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

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

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

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