"Imagination is a muscle that, for many of us, will atrophy if we don't use it, especially under the pressure of constant fear. Fear and imagination often can't be in the same room. So, one of the things I think to strengthen that muscle is, first of all, reading. Reading visionary fiction, reading visionary texts. I often recommend Octavia Butler to people because it's reading things that are hard. Walidah Imarisha always says, "It's realistic and hard, but it's hopeful that change is possible." How do we be with what is and keep our eyes up?"
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Fantasy authorsScience fiction authors from the United StatesNon-fiction authors from the United StatesWomen authors from the United States21st-century African-American women
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Imported from EN Wikiquote
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Adrienne_Maree_Brown
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Adrienne Maree Brown
Adrienne Maree Brown, often styled adrienne maree brown (born September 6, 1978), is a writer, activist and facilitator. From 2006 to 2010, she was the executive director of the Ruckus Society. She also co-founded and directed the United States League of Young Voters.
64 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Adrienne Maree Brown →
Related Quotes
"Writing fiction allows us to dream aloud, to dream onto pages that we hope others will read, and to craft worlds we h…"
"The work of decolonizing the future is the work of decolonizing our imaginations. We have to tell stories in which th…"
"So much has changed there because of the work of Octavia, because of the work of Nnedi Okorafor, because of the work …"
"Afrofuturism, I will say, is a thrilling — to me, a thrilling arena. And now there’s African futurism. There’s Black …"
"If we were able to unshackle our imaginations in this moment, I think our compatibility with the Earth would become p…"
"When I imagine the world in a right relationship, it's a love story between our species and this Earth and amongst us."
"Some of the things that have most astounded me that have come to pass in our recent history have been the ways we hav…"
"The stories I think we need to tell are ones of what it is like to be in a relationship with the Earth. What is it li…"
"I know that I'm not grieving because death is unnatural, I'm grieving because love has overfilled my banks, and I can…"
"Pleasure activism asserts that we all need and deserve pleasure and that our social structures must reflect this. In …"