I finished this book a couple of weeks ago, but I keep remembering the part about how the author did not realize that Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrise Cullors was an artist. Ebonyjanice explains that so many of us become known for our activism--our role in interrupting white supremacy--that our actually work, our creative work becomes backgrounded: "We are being known for our resistance and not for our living."

She also goes on to quote her own tweet, "I just thought about the fact that I may never fully self-actualize because I do not know what it looks like to dream of my highest self outside of white supremacist systems. Which is to say, everything I create is created from resistance rather than from a place of just being."

"I wanted to consider what my highest imagination of myself revealed without white supremacy as the filter through which I create, build and exist. I realized that in order for me to be able to get to the work my soul must have, I needed either a new vision or a clearer vision of how to do justice work that didn't cost me my body. This, intuitively, called me to dreaming as a deep, intentional part of my practice."