#cp

[Ella Baker]'s second defining characteristic was her dislike of top-down leadership... 'She felt leaders were not appointed but the rose up. Someone will rise. Someone will emerge'. It was an attitude Baker shared with some of the older women in the movement. ↗

— Gail Collins

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#ella-baker #feminism #grassroots-organizing #leadership #naacp

[Jules] slides into a seat beside me with her hot lunch tray, sighing. “Four hours, thirty-six minutes, and twelve seconds till we’re out of purgatory for the weekend.” “Maybe later,” I murmur, still distracted by the day’s previous events. “So, let me show you how a conversation works. I say something, and then you say something back that actually relates to what I was talking about, as if you were even the least bit interested.” “Huh?” I say. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

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#conversation #delilah-mcphee #humor #jules #paying-attention

Life is a book, and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read. I would read them together with you, as many as I can, before I die- ↗

— Cassandra Clare

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#life