activism
Pleasure is the point. Feeling good is not frivolous, it is freedom.
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good , ed. Adrienne Maree Brown (Chico, CA, 2019), 138.
To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything is to succumb to violence. The frenzy of the activist neutralizes his or her work for peace.
Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander (New York: Doubleday, 2009), 81.
We always need to remember that behind almost every great moment in history, there are heroic people doing really boring and frustrating things for a prolonged period of time.
“My Favorite August,” The New York Times, August 13, 2010.