Service • Sisterhood • Intentional Community Building
"Without community, there is no liberation…but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist."
— Audre Lorde
"The function of freedom is to free someone else."
— Toni Morrison
"Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion."
— bell hooks
"We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society. We have to encourage a collective spirit. Individuality should be embedded in community."
— Angela Y. Davis
"Strong people don't need strong leaders."
— Ella Baker
"I come as one, but I stand as ten thousand."
— Maya Angelou
"Part of being a revolutionary is creating a vision that is more humane. That is more fun, too. That is more loving. It's recognizing that there is nothing more important than community."
— Assata Shakur
"You cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it, unless you see yourself as belonging to it and responsible for changing it."
— Grace Lee Boggs