"Solidarity does not assume that our struggles are the same struggles, or that our pain is the same pain, or that our hope is for the same future. Solidarity involves commitment, and work, as well as the recognition that even if we do not have the same feelings, or the same lives, or the same bodies, we do live on common ground."

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Source : Sara Ahmed (2013). “The Cultural Politics of Emotion”, p.189, Routledge

Sara Ahmed

#Pain Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Commitment Quotes

“I've now been doing this for ten years, and I actually got to skip a stage of going to casting directors, and now I meet with the directors, either for lunch or an audition room, and I still read sides; you're never going to get around that, but I'm not the best person to go on an audition.”
“There are not many of us African American Sister Presidents, and those of us who are in this field do not have an easy time of it. Why the story goes that one Black woman college president died and went to hell, and it was two weeks before she realized that she wasn't still on the job.”
“The idea of happiness for me is being in tune with all around me, at one with all that is. Awareness of our interconnectedness. Harmony.”

Source : Source: www.watkinsmagazine.com
“The word 'innocence' means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.”
“People write to me and say, 'I'm giving up, you're not talking to me.' I just write them a simple message like, 'Never give up,' you know? And it changes their life.”
“Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”
“I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.”
“It is not understood that before life an individual decides to live. A self is not simply the accidental personification of the body's biological mechanism. Each person born desires to be born. He dies when that desire no longer operates. No epidemic or illness or natural disaster - or stray bullet from a murderer's gun - will kill a person who does not want to die.”

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