Safiya Fon Hasstrel Quotes

I told you, Hell-Bard. Everyone lies. It's in the way we banter with our friends. It's in the mundane greetings we give passersby. It's in the most meaningless things we do every single moment of every single day. Hundreds upon thousands of tiny, inconsequential lies. ~ Susan Dennard

Oh, I know!" Safi clapped her hands, delighted by her own genius. "I shall call you Un-empressed."
"Please," Vaness said coldly, "stop this immediately."
Safi absolutely did not. ~ Susan Dennard

And do all Hell-Bards waddle like a duck, or is it just you? ~ Susan Dennard

I do not think it a coincidence that when women and people of color are finally given opportunity to participate in limited spheres of decision making in society, computers are simultaneously celebrated as a more optimal choice for making social decisions. ~ Safiya Umoja Noble

This monopoly of information is a threat to democracy... ~ Safiya Umoja Noble

If I ever ran for President,
It would be a school for scandal.
Champagne for all served before exams. ~ Sahndra Fon Dufe

You cannot have the testimony unless you first endure the test. ~ Angelique La Fon-Cox

The headlines are never in the news! And so, what I am saying is the news is never on the headlines ~ Sahndra Fon Dufe

The notion that Google/ Alphabet has the potential to be a democratizing force is certainly laudable, but the contradictions inherent in its projects must be contextualized in the historical conditions that both create and are created by it. ~ Safiya Umoja Noble

When you love a child, you change the world! ~ Angelique La Fon-Cox

You are the Master of your Life.
May you remember that each time before you give your power away. ~ Sahndra Fon Dufe

The word "cannibal," the English variant of the Spanish word canibal, comes from the word caribal, a reference to the native Carib people in the West Indies, who Columbus thought ate human flesh and from whom the word "Caribbean" originated. By virtue of being Caribbean, all "West Indian" people are already, in a purely linguistic sense, born savage. ~ Safiya Sinclair

What I care about is what I care about. What you care about is what you care about. So let's add the planet to that list ~ Sahndra Fon Dufe

If you wanted to, Safiya, you could bend and shape the world. ~ Susan Dennard

As the Epic Film, Noah, debuts this weekend, those of you who have read Samrajni of Pemako know about the Noah subplot in the novel.
Yes, Safiya, the protagonist is distantly related to Noah... ~ Roy C. Marien

The implications of such marginalization are profound. The insights about sexist and racist biases... are important because information organizations, from libraries to schools and universities to governmental agencies, are increasingly reliant on being displaced by a variety of web-based "tools" as if there are no political, social, or economic consequences of doing so. ~ Safiya Umoja Noble

...large technologies such as Google need to be broken up and regulated, because their consolidated power and cultural influence make competition largely impossible. This monopoly in the information sector is a threat to democracy... ~ Safiya Umoja Noble

Music is joy and sorrow, celebration and loss. healing and pain, bondage and freedom. Whatever you are... music is. ~ Angelique La Fon-Cox

...artificial intelligence will become a major human rights issue in the twenty-first century. ~ Safiya Umoja Noble

The issue is not that you are wearing buckets of make up. The real problem is how does the inside look ~ Sahndra Fon Dufe

We were the Fon, the Ibo, the Hausa, the Ashanti, the Mandinka, the Ewe, the Tiv, and the Ga. We were the Fante, the Fulani, the Ijaw, the Mende, the Wolof, the Yoruba, the BaKongo, and the Mbundu. We were the Serere, the Akan, the Bambara and the Bassa. And we were proud. We knew our ancestors by name. They ~ Daniel Black

You've been there all along, Bloodwitch. Somewhere, l-lurking. You are the reason I had to go to my tribe - which means you are the reason Corlant c-c-could attack. So if I had never met you, then would I even be here right now?"
"If I had never met you," he countered coolly, "then my spine would never have snapped, and Leopold fon Cartorra would never have hired me. Monk Evrane would not have almost died. ~ Susan Dennard

Google creates advertising algorithms, not information algorithms. ~ Safiya Umoja Noble

You don't wish me well when you tell me the sky is my limit. You bind me within its realm. I prefer to hear that I am my limit, not the sky, because beyond our sky lays the moon, the sun, the milky way, other universes and the possibilities are limitless. ~ Sahndra Fon Dufe

Whatever you are looking for is also looking for you. You see, don't only look. Be available and ready when it shows up ~ Sahndra Fon Dufe

I live for my death. While it is important how you perceive me now, It is more imperative how generations to come would perceive me ~ Sahndra Fon Dufe

The spectacles of zoos, circuses, and world's fairs and expositions are important sites that predate the Internet by more than a century, but it can be argued and is in fact argued here that these traditions of displaying native bodies extend to the information age and are replicated in a host of problematic ways in the indexing, organization, and classification of information about Black and Brown bodies--especially on the commercial web. ~ Safiya Umoja Noble

Allow me to serve you, Safiya. We have spent too many years apart." "And I have spent too many hours between meals." A glare. "Give it to me now, Polly, or I shall castrate you with a fork. ~ Susan Dennard

Validate you,
and the world will
start validating you.
Underestimate you,
and the world will
start underestimating you. ~ Sahndra Fon Dufe

I dare you to stand out. ~ Sahndra Fon Dufe