Imarisha Quotes

#1. What's useful about Oregon as a case study is that Oregon was bold enough to write it down," Imarisha told me. "But the same ideology, policies, and practices that shaped Oregon shaped every state in the Union, as well as this nation as a whole.

Anonymous

#2. Our ancestors dreamed us up and then bent reality to create us.

Walidah Imarisha

#3. The best diet is the one that you don't know you are on.

Chris Powell

#4. But there was so much injustice. As soon as one field of hatred and oppression was burned, another crop came into harvest. It never ended and Jane grew tired.

Walidah Imarisha

#5. And all the insects ceased in honor of the moon.

Jack Kerouac

#6. He turned and looked her solemnly in the eyes. "Is it too much to ask for a happy ending?" She smiled sadly. "I don't think there are any happy endings left.

Walidah Imarisha

#7. Together they unlocked potential in one another. They worked hard and played harder, until the work felt like play. Everything

Walidah Imarisha

#8. I do not consider myself a guitar player. My father is a guitar player - I'm not.

Rufus Wainwright

#9. We Black people cannot outrun our demons. Nor should we ever want to. We will embrace them as our lost Beloveds, and listen to the songs they sing to bring us through the darkness. - Walidah

Walidah Imarisha

#10. While the larger white society lives in terror of liberated Blackness, of the "demons" unleashed coming after them, we know many of our spirits haunt us out of love, out of a desire for all that was unfairly stolen from them.

Walidah Imarisha

#11. We don't have the right to bear arms because of burglars; we have the right to bear arms to resist the supreme power of a corrupt and abusive government.

Vince Vaughn

#12. Because many of the people who were taken by the wasting disease happened to be white, God was not a viable culprit.

Walidah Imarisha

#13. Letting go isn't giving up. It's trusting God to do whatever He has to do.

Francine Rivers

#14. Once you've spent two years trying to wiggle one toe, everything is in proportion.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#15. Let me make this radiantly clear - if you believe in spirits and the metaphysical world, your biology will create the illusion that these things are real.

Christopher Zzenn Loren

#16. There ought to be a law against the sun rising and setting for you in somebody else.

Harry Crews

#17. hipsters and entrepreneurs were complicated locusts. they ate up everything in sight, but they meant well.

Walidah Imarisha