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A Gathering of Flowers
RADICAL LOVE
FOR SELF
“And so it goes in every
heart there is a wound, and
it goes and so goes, and so
will you, I suppose…”
-Billy Joel
I break chains all by myself
/ Won’t let my freedom rot
in hell / I’mma keep runnin’
because a winner don’t quit
on themselves.
-Beyonce
I am not the things my
family did, I am not the
voices in my head, I am
not the pieces of the
brokenness inside, I am
light, I am light.
-India.Arie
I learned to love myself
unconditionally because I
am a queen.
-India.Arie
In a society that says, ‘Put
yourself last,’ self-love
and self-acceptance are
revolutionary.
-Brené Brown
There can be no Black love
without the attempt to
promote the death of white
supremacy inside of Black
people… Black love has
nothing to do with hating
people; it has everything
to do with hating white
supremacy.
-Cornel West
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LOVE WITH
BELOVED COMMUNITY
“Boundaries are the distance
at which I can love you and
me simultaneously.”
-Prentis Hemphil
“Compassion is a sense
of concern that arises
when we are confronted
with another’s suffering
and feel motivated to see
that suffering relieved.”
-Thupten Jinpa
“Honesty is such a lonely
word because everyone is
so untrue. Honesty is hardly
ever heard, but mostly what
I need from you.”
-Billy Joel
The risk of love is loss and
the price of loss is grief.
But the pain of grief is only
a shadow when compared
with the pain of never
risking love.
-Hilary Stanton Zunin
My work is to carry this
love as comfort for those
who long for you, to go
everywhere you’ve walked
and gaze at the presseddown dirt.
-Rumi
Love’s in need of love today.
-Stevie Wonder
To love someone, really love
someone, is to really know
them and to allow them to
really know you.
-Baratunde Thurston
Never, never my darling never you’ll be alone; Ever,
forever my darling, true
love is written in the stone.
-Earth, Wind, & Fire
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While loss is deeply
uncomfortable, we can
learn to adapt to the
natural phenomenon of
loss. But when structural
inequalities produce major
and secondary losses,
leading to widespread
collective grief, death is
out of balance with life.
Individual and collective,
repeated and generational,
traumatic loss stacked
on top of existing natural
loss. We must tear down
the systems, institutions
and narratives that
engineer death, fuel it and
simultaneously distract
us from it. This is the
essential rebalancing act is
the charge of 21st century
social justice movements.
-Malkia Devich Cyril
LIFEAFFIRMING
SYSTEMS
Nicole
Robinson’s
10 forces
“We must
believe that
we can
radically
transform the
world, and we
must do it all
the time.”
-Angela
Davis
Love, the
author of
space and
time, keeps
the galaxies
and each
sparrow alive.
-After All,
David Foster
and Al
Jarreau
Justice is
what love
looks like in
public.
-Cornel West
All my grandmother’s love
and wisdom is still with
me and that gives me
the strength to look for
more.Thousands of years
back, how? Ahead of me
thousands of years to look
forward to.
-Lupe Renteria Salome
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