Decolonizing Quotes

#1. We live in a racist world. Everywhere there is racism. We say to White people, "You really have to examine how you behave in the world. You are responsible for deconstructing internalized racism and being part of a ongoing process of decolonizing yourself."

Eve Ensler

#2. We have to work at decolonizing our mentality and achieving happiness within the limits of sacrifice we should be willing to make. We have to recondition our people to accept themselves as they are, to not be ashamed of their real situation, to be satisfied with it, to glory in it, even

Thomas Sankara

#3. No Black woman can become an intellectual without decolonizing her mind.

Bell Hooks

#4. Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.

Victor Hugo

#5. For six years profound silence was mistaken for profound wisdom.

Alben W. Barkley

#6. Only visible in retrospect, my friend. If I'm successful, people will call me brave. If I fail, I will be called foolish.

Amish Tripathi

#7. How seamless seemed love and then came trouble!

Khaled Hosseini

#8. Everything exists; nothing exists. Either formula affords a like serenity. The man of anxiety, to his misfortune, remains between them, trembling and perplexed, forever at the mercy of a nuance, incapable of gaining a foothold in the security of being or in the absence of being.

Emil Cioran

#9. Nothing's really a prized possession except my family, you know?

James Hetfield