A People’s Social Epidemiologist

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him. The act of writing is the intention of it; the root of it is liberation.
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James Baldwin

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#ByEpiMeansNecessary

Health equity is not something that is “achieved,” as this implies — and indeed requires — the absence of conflict. Properly understood, health equity in a beloved community — as the embodiment of our resistance and resilience — does not aspire to reach mountaintops and take selfies, but to move mountains and take names. It’s not a data point or objective to “achieve;” it’s a call to be (permanently and thoroughly) about that business.
— Dreams of a Beloved Public Health

And who asks the question: am I altering your aura, your ideas, your dreams, or am I merely moving you to temporary and reactive action?
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Audre Lorde

my poetry’s deep, I never fell
- Nas

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#PoetryIsNotALuxury

that space in the margin that is a site of creativity and power, that inclusive space where we recover ourselves, where we move in solidarity to erase the category colonized/colonizer. Marginality as site of resistance. Enter that space. Let us meet there.
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bell hooks