“Our motto is 'unity in diversity' but what we have had for a long time, and increasingly so, is fragmentation ... ethically and spiritually.”
Source: Julia's Jihad
“One of the great joys of living as a slut is the opportunity to make intimate connections with people whose background is unlike your own. When you do that, you will find yourself tripping, with some embarrassment, over a lot of differences. This process can feel awkward, but every time it happens, you've learned something new about how people go about being human—perhaps just the thing that was lacking in your own culture.”
Source: The ethical slut: a guide to infinite sexual possibilities
“If we go back in time long enough, then other than the Africans living in Africa, everybody on earth is a descendant of immigrants who migrated to various parts of the world from humankind's original homeland Africa.”
Source: Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society
“We are but each other's keeper.”
Source: Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society
“Real diversity and inclusion doesn't mean that we will always agree. It means that even when we disagree, we can still respect each other. We can vehemently disagree with someone's ideology while passionately pursuing their humanity.”
Source: The Inclusive Mindset: How to Cultivate Diversity in Your Everyday Life
“Truth and integrity must be so rare these days that it confuses people when they hear it.”
“Seek diverse authors, not just diverse books.
If you want to truly decolonize your library seek more than a Black/Brown face on the cover of the book.”
Source: The Noisy Classroom
“...there is more to Blackness than our struggle.”
Source: When My Cousins Come to Town
“We know that Valdemar is not the land—and it is not just the people. Valdemar is a spirit, a community of spirit that binds a hundred disparate peoples with a hundred different religions and ways of life into a company and a greater whole. It is not a unity, for that would be denying our diversity, and in our diversity and our tolerance is our strength.”
Source: Exile's Honor
“The heart beats the same way, no matter the geography.”
Source: The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America