Alicia Garza Quotes

Black Lives Matter was created as a response to state violence and anti-black racism and a call to action for those who want to fight it and build a world where black lives do, in fact, matter.

Alicia Garza

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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.

Warren Weaver
- Science
- Ignorance
- View
There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.

Orison Swett Marden
- Great
- Confidence
- Courage
It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.

Pat Benatar
- Up
- Time
- Trying
I think there are ways to get so caught up in your career and being so heavy and dramatic, and everyone wants to be a tortured genius.

Laura Dern
- Up
- Think
- Career
I have no sense of direction at all. Thank the Lord for my TomTom, otherwise I'd spend my whole life lost.

Tamsin Egerton
- Life
- Lost
- Direction
My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.

Ilyasah Shabazz
- People
- Mother
- Education