“The role of a socially committed historian is to use history, not so much to documentthe past as to restore to the dehistoricized a sense of identity and possibility. Such 'medicinal' histories seek to re-establish the connections between peoples and… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
“I am not african. Africa is in me, but I cannot return. I am not taina. Taino is in me, but there is no way back. I am european. Europe lives in me, but I have no home there. I… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
“I say solidarity is knowing the future is long and wide, with room for everyone on earth to enter. I say it's taking the… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
“Love is subversive, undermining the propaganda of narrow self-interest. Love emphasizes connection, responsibility and the joy we take in each other. Therefore love (as… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
“The life I chose when I promised my six-year-old self never to forget being a child, never to grow frightened and dishonest like the… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
The spiritual is whatever allows us to notice the miraculous nature of life. — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
“The role of a socially committed historian is to use history, not so much to documentthe past as to restore to the dehistoricized a… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
“I am not african. Africa is in me, but I cannot return. I am not taina. Taino is in me, but there is no… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
“To do exciting, empowering research and leave it in academic journals and university libraries is like manufacturing unaffordable medicines for deadly diseases. We need… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
“When we rely on written records we need to continually ask ourselves what might be missing, what might have been recorded in order to… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
“The only way to bear the overwhelming pain of oppression is by telling, in all its detail, in the presence of witnesses and in… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
The whole point of anti-Semitism has been to create a vulnerable buffer group that can be bribed with some privileges into managing the exploitation… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
“…it is no longer useful to…keep defining and elaborating our understandings of the exact nature of racism, sexism, class and sexual orientation as if… — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
“They are charged with trespassing, which means being on your own land when somebody else wants it.” — Aurora Levins Morales Copy Share Image
