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Atieno Imbuchi, filmmaker and organizer

“We need our right to a good healthful, dignified long life here in America and all across the world, and in our beloved mother land, Africa. Ase.”

@jingyork_, youth worker and organizer

“I’ve borrowed “in-betweenity” from the generation of Korean adoptees who came before me. It is a space of not-quite-being that, while at times unsettling, lonely, and uncharted, is also full of possibility and change.”

Channing L. Martinez, Fight for the Soul of the Cities/Strategy Center

“the COVID 19 pandemic shows more blatantly the system’s out right disregard for Black people, Black hopes, and Black movement”

Chrystian Rodriguez of Third World Newsreel

“We often hear about networks and spaces for folks to be seen, but it's not about people becoming powerful leaders in their own right and on their own terms, which should always be the end goal.”

Mtume Gant, Independent Filmmaker

“The playwright kept adding stuff that was so fucked up to Black people, to people with disabilities. In Hollywood, I kept coming up against race and ethics so I was out. It didn't sit well with my vision of my existence. ”

Sacajawea Hall of Cooperation Jackson

“Our relationship to land is not limited to slave history and sharecropping history. We have to think about land in new ways and draw inspiration from the ways Black folks have interacted with land for self-determination and collective healing.”

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