#northernlights @stormhour.com

I take criticism so seriously as to believe that, even in the midst of a battle in which one is unmistakably on one side against another, there should be criticism, because there must be critical consciousness if there are to be issues, problems, values, even lives to be fought for...

Assata Shakur // "Part of being a revolutionary is creating a vision that is more humane. That is more fun, too. That is more loving. It's really working to create something beautiful."

davisvanguard.org/2025/07/kevi...
Legal & forensic experts & civil rights advocates raise new alarms over DNA in #KevinCooper case!
#FreeKevinCooper #RacialJustice #HumanRights
@wtiusa.bsky.social @innocenceproject.bsky.social @amnesty.org @jews4abolition.bsky.social @deathpenaltyaction.bsky.social

Hazrat Inayat Khan: “Everything in life is speaking in spite of its apparent silence.”

My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. Continue to allow humor to lighten the burden of your tender heart.
—Maya Angelou
#mayaangelou

bell hooks said, “The point is not to render ideas less complex but to make the complex clear.”

"Slowing down is medicine."
—Unknown author

Don’t worry.
The heart knows the way though there may be high-rises,
interstates, checkpoints, armed soldiers, massacres, wars, and
those who will despise you because they despise themselves.
—Joy Harjo

poets.org/poem/calling...

“A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants..."
― Doris Lessing
#libraries

Joy Harjo, For Keeps #joyharjo

Rage for the world as it is / but for what it may be / more love now than last year.
—Muriel Rukeyser, “This Place in the Ways”

Alice Walker said, "In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful." #nature

“care is the antidote to violence”
— Saidiya Hartman