All the Black Girls Are Activists Quotes

“Grown Woman Theology is important because it gives you language to contribute to the community of faith amongst whom you are growing, and it is vital because it affirms you as a whole person and a worthy contributor to your own, individual definition of your faith and freedom. (Committed to the survival and wholeness of entire people… Not a separatist, except periodically, for health.)”
― EbonyJanice Moore, All the Black Girls Are Activists

“The power of a name is an affirmation of one’s worthiness. To pronounce a name incorrectly is giving lazy, and it’s serving, I’ma call you what I want to call you, and I don’t care if this is embarrassing. Calling somebody by their name is doing the basic work of being able to empathize with what it is like for someone who has historically been stereotyped or dismissed because of their name. It is powerful work to insist that you say my name correctly. It is equally revolutionary for you to be intentional and careful with people about their name.”
― EbonyJanice Moore, All the Black Girls Are Activists

“The goal is not for you to take care of yourself so that you can march and sign more petitions and do other work, because the goal of getting well isn’t to have more endurance for marches and protests. We got to do that anyway because real liberation demands action and praxis: abolition, policy change, leadership shifting, and dismantling.”
― EbonyJanice Moore, All the Black Girls Are Activists

“That’s why surrendering shame is revolutionary because everything in this society wants me to hate, reject, and resist myself. So any decision to do exactly the opposite of my actual mission and purpose in this life is radical, transformative, revolutionary, and it is essential to my journey to freedom. It is essential to my intention to heal my ancestors in this journey to freedom, and it is essential to ensuring that the generation to come never has to find out, after the fact, that they wouldn’t be the first to do something like that.”
― EbonyJanice Moore, All the Black Girls Are Activists

“I’m going to go look for my body. I might be back but only if I am safe to return as my own. And that’s the work of freedom I’m committed to, both for me and all the Black girls who should get to live in their bodies with ease without having to go in pursuit of the body that was given to each of us as a precious gift.”
― EbonyJanice Moore, All the Black Girls Are Activists