Envisioning
Week 10 

“It’s unbelievable, Trin.  Lights everywhere.  Like the whole thing was built with light.  I wish you could see what I see” (The Matrix Revolutions”.
                    -Neo 

Rama-Kandra:  No. I don’t mind.  The answer is simple.  I love my daughter very much.  I find her to be the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.  But where
we are from, that is not enough.  Every program that is created must have a purpose; if it does not, it is deleted.  I went to the Frenchman to save my daughter.  You do not understand.
Neo:  I just have never . . .
Rama-Kandra:  . . . heard a program speak of love?
Neo:  It’s a human emotion.
Rama-Kandra:  No, it is a word.  What matters is the connection the word implies.  I see that you are in love.  Can you tell me what you would give to hold
 on to that connection?
Neo:  Anything.
Rama-Kandra:  Then perhaps the reason you’re here is not so different from the reason I’m here.
                     -The Matrix Revolutions 

Oracle:  Well, now, ain’t this a surprise.
Architect:  You’ve played a very dangerous game.
Oracle:  Change always is.
Architect:  Just how long do you think this peace is going to last?
Oracle:  As long as it can.
                     -The Matrix Revolutions 

“One of the strategies which indigenous peoples have employed effectively to bind people together politically is a strategy which asks that people
 imagine a future, that they rise above present day situations which are generally depressing, dream a new dream and set a new vision” (152).
                    -Linda Tuhiwai Smith 

“To work for change, we need to know where we stand” (9).
                    -bell hooks 

“I will transcend the box that us ghetto folks have been put into and create a new space.  I will make people think before using the term “ghetto” to refer
to any person, place, or thing.  I will fight for the right to be ghetto, even when my back’s against the wall, being violated by those I’m trying to stand up
for.  That’s keeping it real—real ghetto.  As a people, when one of us suffers, we all suffer.  In my heart, I know that we ain’t a true community until we
take an honest look at each other and begin to embraced every part of our intricately woven culture” (159)
                    -Tina Fakhrid-Deen (edited by Michelle Tea) 

“Once we realize that there are few pure victims or oppressors, and that each one of us derives varying amounts of penalty and privilege from the multiple
systems of oppression that frame our lives, then we will be in a position to see the need for new ways of thought and action” (373).
                    -Patricia Hill Collins 

“Each of us is called upon to take a stand.  So in these days ahead, as we examine ourselves and each other, our works, our fears, our
differences, our sisterhood and survival, I urge you to tackle what is most difficult for us all, self-scrutiny of our complacencies, the ideas that since each of us believes she is on the side of right, she need not examine her position.  I urge you to examine your position” (386).
                     -Audre Lorde (quoted by Patricia Hill Collins)