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WE INSIST! is a jazz and Black arts action community and an evolving project to convey a True history. WE INSIST! is intended to stimulate discussion, to exist in collaboration with the movement to protect Black lives, and to offer arts, educational, media, and business communities topics and possible positions on pressing intersectional topics such as: education, children, hiring practices, gentrification, patriarchy, sexuality, and the eradication of Black economic subservience and state-sponsored murder and brutality. Through the heart of jazz, WE INSIST! forges an anti-racist and anti-sexist path with the Black liberation movement.
Black Quotes of Inspiration
Claudia Jones
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Claudia Jones
“The Lady with the Lamp, the Statue of Liberty, stands in New York Harbour. Her back is squarely turned on the USA. It’s no wonder, considering what she would have to look upon. She would weep, if she had to face this way.”
James Baldwin
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Claudia Jones
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“The paradox of education is precisely this —- that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.”
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, and it does seem to me that notwithstanding all these social agencies and activities there is not that vigilance which should be exercised in the preservation of our rights.”
Barbara Smith
Stefano Harney & Fred Moten
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
“The concept of the simultaneity of oppression is still the crux of a Black feminist understanding of political reality and, I believe, one of the most significant ideological contributions of Black feminist thought.”
Robin D.G. Kelley
Stefano Harney & Fred Moten
Stefano Harney & Fred Moten
“So if you think of capitalism as racial capitalism, then the outcome is you cannot eliminate capitalism, overthrow it, without the complete destruction of white supremacy, of the racial regime under which it's built."
Stefano Harney & Fred Moten
Stefano Harney & Fred Moten
Stefano Harney & Fred Moten
“It ends with love, exchange, fellowship. It ends as it begins, in motion, in between various modes of being and belonging, and on the way to new economies of giving, taking, and being with and for and it ends with a ride in a Buick Skylark on the way to another place altogether.”