"we are living in impossible times. if it were fiction it would be critiqued as hyperbolic. if it were nightmares we would never sleep. we are living in times created by our own species. I can't remember the last time my tears weren't man-made.
it feels like everything is broken. we must, each of us, fix our attention on the nearest wound, conjure within us the smallest parts of ourselves that are still whole, and be healers. heal with words and prayer and energy, heal with money, clean water, time and action.
there's enough destruction. there's enough nothingness swallowing the living world. don't add to it. there's enough.
our visions are ropes through the devastation. look further ahead, like our ancestors did, look further. extend, hold on, pull, evolve."
- Adrienne Maree Brown, Emergent Strategy, 2018
"When the groups most affected by these issues insist on acknowledgment of their intrinsic difference, it should not be viewed as divisive. Embracing the distinct histories and identities of groups in a democracy enhances the complexity and capacity of the whole."
- Stacey Abrams, Foreign Affairs, September/October 2018
