Poet E. Ethelbert Miller wrote that "if we are to be activists of any kind, we should be motivated by what begins in the center of our hearts." Likewise, if true large-scale revolution is ever going to take place if there ever will come a time when there is a complete overturning of the White supremacist systems that are at the root of our justice and social systems-it will likely come about because enough of our hearts have been lit with the fire of protest in our personal lives.

— Black Joy by Tracey Michae'l Lewis-Giggetts (Page 89)