Diversity has become a replacement for justice.

All of these Black artists coming from a Black perspective with Black ideas—that was to me really the biggest part of learning about Blackness.

College is supposed to be about thought, and not just supposed to be about practicality of making it through capitalism.

People still wanna contest the evidence. It’s not an evidence issue, it’s an empathy issue.

When you teach people what’s happened and what we’ve come through, automatically you feel this sense of strength.

Not a single one of us is where we are because of who we are as an individual. Whether we're dealing with despair, or success.

We built this country. We’re not fucking victims. We can do this, we just have to be able to encourage and empower ourselves.

Christianity has been dominant in the experiences of Black people in the U.S. for the past 150 years, but this is not what we always were. And this is not what our spirituality and our sense of the divine always was.

To not fight is to not care. It doesn’t matter to you. You’re giving up.

White supremacy permeates through almost every facet of our society, and art is no exception.

I’m an artist, from a Black experience. So some of my work will be unapologetically Black. Oh well.

If they don’t like you, they wanna look down on you, go ahead! But don’t create an atmosphere where I feel like less than a person.

If you cash in your Good Black Person chip, that’s it, there’s no more. They’re not gonna give you a pass anymore.

You can’t tease apart race from health outcomes in the United States, given our history.

If anyone who sought to start a movement only did it under the condition that it would be fulfilled within their lifetimes, no comprehensive movement would ever have been born.

We built this country. We’re not fucking victims. We can do this, we just have to be able to encourage and empower ourselves.

There has to be something else. There has to be an alternative to whiteness.

I feel like we’re very quick to forget that these women started this movement for *all* Black lives. But we’re only hearing about Black men

Right now, this point in my life, I’m actually adjusting to being around people other than folks that are my color.

I feel like this movement itself is just Black voices screaming for love.

I’m fine, I’m good—I’m just enraged, all the time, 24/7.

To me, liberation means having the freedom of choice to live how you choose to live without facing danger for it.

I don’t have to teach you anything. I don’t owe you shit. I’m gonna work on me, and I’m moving forward.