Kyle Callahan > Kyle's Quotes

“America is woven of many strands; I would recognize them and let it so remain.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“There was no peace in continuing to do what had already proven unworkable. Sometimes tradition itself disrupted peace, and only newness could smooth the way.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Shadowed Sun

“Radical or revolutionary consciousness . . . is the perception of oneself as unfree, as oppressed—and finally it is the discovery of oneself as one of the oppressed who must unite to transform the objective conditions of their existence in order to resolve the contradiction between potentiality and actuality. Revolutionary consciousness leads to the struggle for one’s own freedom in unity with others who share the burden of oppression.”
― Joshua Bloom, Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party