“All of my friends who were youth workers, educators, and healers would reflect back to me, that everywhere they turned in August 2020, they were asked for free labor. No one reached out asking, “Are you okay?” or “What do you need?” or “How is this time impacting you?” - Peregrine Bermas

“The systems that are in place are fragile, right? They're also meant to serve a very small group of people. And that small group of people are heavily reliant on the rest of us to keep that system propped up for them.” - William Estrada

“Time is being forwarded by all these amazing Indigenous, Black, Latinx, Asian American communities, trans, queer, nonbinary, femme, folks in these wormholes, black holes, these other portals of time that bend time and play with time and flip and reconstruct time in these ways so that we can have more time together -- and make our futures more livable.” - Patricia Nguyen

“It feels heartbreaking to have some of the incidents that have occurred to create this dialogue and action, but I must say I’m really proud to be part of a period in time where so many people are being vocal about inequity and showing so much solidarity.” - Tonika Johnson

“Large scale reparations will affect not only an individual but generations and generations. That has been very radical, and probably the closest to Black liberation being actualized in a sustainable way.” - Juniper

“We’re not aiming for a culture where there is a hierarchy like “only these people can be the prom king and prom queen” and everyone else are the subjects. We’re trying to party! Everyone can come down the Soul Train line… everybody!” - Tracie D. Hall

“They named their city for Resurrection in 1968, the year I was born, at a time that must have seemed equally bleak. One could argue the intervening 52 years between now and then -- I lived it -- was it better or worse?” - Todd Palmer

"I think in the face of the pandemic, it’s time for mirror-looking, but I think in light of recent events, it’s time to look in the mirror and to see the community you’re connected to behind you." - Kamilah Rashied

“Worlds end all the time and new worlds begin all the time, and that many of our ancestors have survived apocalypse already. The Transatlantic Slave Trade was an apocalypse, the Indigenous genocide was an apocalypse, the Holocaust was an apocalypse, and all kinds of wars and genocides throughout the history of our people are all their own ends of worlds." - Benji Hart

“In my best James Baldwin “High Noon Sunday.” He’s talking about America and religion in this quote and he says that the most segregated time in America is high noon Sunday. So you know, it’s not to say anything, but that’s what I’m thinking. Just to reflect how divided this country is at this moment.” - avery r. young

“What do reparations mean when the harm is ongoing? The reparations we have in Chicago are reparative, but reparative doesn’t mean that the harm is over, and it doesn’t mean that it’s enough. It’s almost like reparations are the first step in this longer conversion of society because it allows us to see more possibilities." - Aislinn Pulley

“It’s time to be real. There’s a futility in going along the motions. There’s a fucking pandemic and literal uprisings all over the world. You might as well be who the fuck you are. At least for me, it’s time to reflect on my priorities; are my priorities really mine or am I internalizing someone else’s calendar?” - Zeb Hurst

“The world’s clock says “look, you can not destroy me and not expect catastrophic results.” This is where Fenon becomes prophetic. When he says “each generation will fulfill their destiny or betray it.” The clock of the world is like, “look this thing could end really quick for humans.” - Dave Stovall

“I think in terms of the process, talking about crip culture - crip culture is the conceptual framework - the way that we reach out to fellow disabled siblings and the way that we extend our care. Taking time and making it with our own hands and thinking about community care. I’m thinking not only about my disabled siblings but also those who support them.” - Sandie Yi

“We’re delivering berries first and foremost during this time to remind our folks that our medicines are still growing, we still have access to these things. That’s a privilege that other folks don’t have, they don’t have access to their traditional medicines because they’re occupying our ancestral territories, and thinking about the ways that all of that came to be.” - Fawn Pochel

“Is there any way to see it other than revolutionary times? I feel like for decades, folks who have gone through previous revolutions were saying that there’s going to be a global revolution at some point it’s just inevitable. Oftentimes a spark is necessary.” - Jean Aymar Christian

“This time is asking us to take a deep breath and go straight into an ugly cry, throw a full-blown tantrum, maybe even break some shit and then cry and cry and cry. Cry ourselves to sleep so that when we wake up the next day we are free of all that we were carrying, and can look at the mess we made, like take a really good look at it and get it to it." - Brenda Hernandez

“On whose time? If I had all the time in the world? What would I be doing? How would I be using that time? If I had all the time in the world? What would I be doing? How would I be using that time?” - Zakkiyyah Najeebah

“How can we be like fungi and continue to build communities of care that expand wider and more expansively: beyond ourselves, our families, our friends, our neighbors, beyond our borders, beyond our species, beyond our brief existence on this plane? ” - Irina Zadov