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If we were able to unshackle our imaginations in this moment, I think our compatibility with the Earth would become possible.

— Adrienne Maree Brown Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility (2023)

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There has been one constant, as far back as we can understand: The world is always changing.

The Green Generation (2007)

So much has changed there because of the work of Octavia, because of the work of Nnedi Okorafor, because of the work of Tananarive Due.

Interview with Democracy Now (2021)

When I imagine the world in a right relationship, it's a love story between our species and this Earth and amongst us.

Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility (2023)

We might be learning slowly, but change is coming fast.

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Ultimately, pleasure activism is us learning to make justice and liberation the most pleasurable experiences we can have on this planet.

Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (2019)

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Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me.

L. Frank Baum Introduction to The Lost Princess of Oz (1917)

There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.

Alan Moore

An active imagination may find a bad tendency arising out of every transaction between imperfect morals.

Edward Hall Alderson Brownlow v. Egerton (1854)

Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination, and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers.

David Hume A Treatise of Human Nature (1739)

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