100 Quotes by Patrisse Cullors

Each and every one of us has multiple identities, and this is a fact that should be celebrated. I for example, am a queer black woman who grew up poor in Los Angeles.

We can feel sad, hurt, demoralized. But we can't give up.

For those looking outside-in, it's not fair - or accurate - to assign someone an identity based off the first thing that we see.

The movement for black lives isn't just about black people. Black liberation has never just been about black people. It's been about a fight for our humanity, for our dignity.

When folks say 'identity politics' don't matter, it simply reinforces the norm of a white, middle-class, cis narrative and further marginalizes the rest of us who don't share that identity.

Black Lives Matter has become what black communities all over the world have needed it to become. At times, it is a hashtag; at other moments, it is a declaration, a cry of rage, a sharing of light. It has become a movement that is international, worldwide in its scope of liberation for black and oppressed people everywhere.

#BlackLivesMatter is about black pride and black power and standing up against a world that tries to annihilate us.

The brutal history of colonialism is one in which white people literally stole land and people for their own gain and material wealth.

As a black millennial, I remember with horrid detail how Democratic policies ravaged my community and destroyed my family.