Patrisse Cullors

I don't dislike my appearance at all.

— Patrisse Cullors

I don't like how cruel humans can be.

— Patrisse Cullors

I am scared every day.

— Patrisse Cullors

I want to see Black Lives Matter be able to ultimately reduce law enforcement funding.

— Patrisse Cullors

We need to fight for a new human rights movement that recognizes and values black life.

— Patrisse Cullors

A racist and misogynist should not be a president in 21st-century America.

— Patrisse Cullors

Black women's lives have never been shown any value in America.

— Patrisse Cullors

Individuals are complex and deserve to be recognized as such.

— Patrisse Cullors

We can feel sad, hurt, demoralized. But we can't give up.

— Patrisse Cullors

It was white people who got Trump into office.

— Patrisse Cullors

Under Trump, black lives will become even more vulnerable to state violence.

— Patrisse Cullors

I have never felt the grips of patriarchy and its need to erase black women and our labor... so strongly until the…

— Patrisse Cullors

Freedom means the U.S. government not being the main threat to countries around the world.

— Patrisse Cullors

I've been in movement work since I was 16 years old. Black Lives Matter becomes an important part of the story, but…

— Patrisse Cullors

Colin Kaepernick is one of the leaders in the movement for black lives. His role as an athlete and activist is not…

— Patrisse Cullors

We should be developing spaces and places that are thinking about how we care for the group vs. asking the individual to…

— Patrisse Cullors

I am part of a legacy of queer black women who have fought for the freedom of black people across the globe.

— Patrisse Cullors

White people who voted for Trump decided to invest in a president who underwrites white supremacy in the guise of populism.

— Patrisse Cullors

The brutal history of colonialism is one in which white people literally stole land and people for their own gain and material…

— Patrisse Cullors

Every community has crime and violence; it's a part of being human. This idea that black communities are more violent than others…

— Patrisse Cullors

Our decentralized, localized leadership structure has really allowed for Black Lives Matter structures in their own communities to take on the state…

— Patrisse Cullors

Black women voted against Roy Moore not because they necessarily wanted the other guy; they voted against Roy Moore because they knew…

— Patrisse Cullors

Black Lives Matter has become what black communities all over the world have needed it to become. At times, it is a…

— Patrisse Cullors

Throughout every presidency since the heist of our country from indigenous peoples, the black American experience has been exceptional in its discomfort.…

— Patrisse Cullors

I think part of what we're seeing in the rise of white nationalism is their response to Black Lives Matter, is their…

— Patrisse Cullors

Before BLM, there was a dormancy in our black freedom movement. Obviously many of us were doing work, but we've been able…

— Patrisse Cullors

When I was younger, I had these romantic ideas about the Black Panther Party and what it meant to be a part…

— Patrisse Cullors

I have been arrested several times protesting.

— Patrisse Cullors

The unfortunate reality is the alt-right has captured white people's imagination.

— Patrisse Cullors

We have to look at queerness as a means towards challenging normativity.

— Patrisse Cullors

In 2013, I helped create a black-centered political will- and movement-building project called #BlackLivesMatter.

— Patrisse Cullors

Black Lives Matter was born out of our unwavering love for black people and our undeniable rage over a system that has…

— Patrisse Cullors

Local law enforcement agencies, national police authorities, and other state-operated surveillance has created a hostile environment for communities at the margins.

— Patrisse Cullors

Black Lives Matter is one iteration of a much larger struggle to fight for black people's freedom.

— Patrisse Cullors

Racism has its boot squarely wedged on the neck of black communities, and we don't want to be told that hard work…

— Patrisse Cullors

The Trump administration has done everything in its power to uphold the harsh racist reality we have faced.

— Patrisse Cullors

I think what's so powerful about Black Lives Matter is we're the first movement able to take on law enforcement and make…

— Patrisse Cullors

The only way to gain the kinds of often-generational wealth that the 1% has been able to gain is through controlling the…

— Patrisse Cullors

The story of Black Lives Matter starts before Black Lives Matter. The story of Black Lives Matter, for me, starts with my…

— Patrisse Cullors

#BlackLivesMatter is about black pride and black power and standing up against a world that tries to annihilate us.

— Patrisse Cullors