Quote from Radical Dharma

Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation

by Rev. angel Kyoto williams, Lama Rod Owens, with Jasmine Syedullah

North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, California, 2016           214 pages

The Black Radical Tradition is foundational to people who are not Black, for it is only with the liberation of Black people that humanity can be freed from its chains of oppression, just as Black people cannot be liberated while humanity is in chains. (p. xix)

To inhabit radical as an ideal is to commit to going beyond one’s familiar or even chosen terrain. It avails you to what you aren’t willing to see, which is the place where Truth resides.

To embody that truth is to live beyond the limits of self-reinforcing habits, which take the narrative of the past, project it onto the future, and obscure the present, leaving us to sleepwalk in the dreamscape of other people’s desires and determinations.

It is to transcend the borders erected by pain, fear, and apathy, to discover a new territory unbound by the privileges and preferences that trade freedom for familiarity and comfort but pretend they are one and the same.

Because by definition it can never be static; to be radical is to constantly live in the territory yet undiscovered, the liberation yet unknown. (p. xii)

-- quote submitted by Oriana K. H.

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