Mariame Kaba Quotes

born 2021 United States

Mariame Kaba is an American activist, grassroots organizer, and educator who advocates for the abolition of the prison industrial complex, including all police. She is the author of We Do This 'Til We Free Us (2021).

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Poetry helps me to imagine freedom...Poetry can help lift the ceiling from our brains so that we can imagine liberation.

In Who Reads Poetry (2017)

Poetry can help lift the ceiling from our brains so that we can imagine liberation.

In Who reads poetry (2017)

Failure and mistakes are part of a process.

The Practices We Need: #MeToo and Transformative Justice (2018)

Poetry helps me to imagine freedom.

In Who reads poetry (2017)

How do we mourn? How can we grieve? I think poetry opens a door. Poetry helps us to resist.

In Who reads poetry (2017)

With punishment at the center of everything we haven't been able to really address the other stuff that needs to happen. Because people fucking need to-they need to take accountability when they harm people.

The Practices We Need: #MeToo and Transformative Justice (2018)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mariame Kaba (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.