We Will Flourish

i just don't think that people that have been part of keeping parts of this city malnourished on purpose... get to participate in the growth — we can't, it's not possible — until we go back and deal with our relics that cause pain — Kim Bandy

you bring people into the same situation and you really do expect that you're starting from the same starting point, but nobody at the table is starting from the same starting point — Malika Cox

To be an advocate is to stand between the person that does not have, the person who is on a journey, and the people who do have — and knock even when it's inconvenient. You knock, and you knock, and you knock, and you say, this person is in need and we have to do something about it. This person is in need and among us we have what they need.

— Cece Jones-Davis

It was crazy, it was just really, really strange — and I had come to a place where I literally, physically crashed, but I've come to realize that something that I fail too often at is self care. You have to come out of the rain sometimes...

— Cece Jones-Davis

I would say, a city that is flourishing, a city of peace, is a city where we know we are the beloved, that we belong, and that all can flourish equally, without limitations.

— Malika Cox

Having elders in the work of human flourishing is really, really important because they are the keepers of the wisdom that we really need in order to know what we're now needing to do.

— Cece Jones-Davis

...to understand that there really is a disparity between those that have access to the resources and voice to the solutions and those that are experiencing the challenges and the pain...

— Tyler Green

We're so quick to point fingers and to address the negatives, but we forget about the grace. If there was grace given to us, why not give it to others?

— Tiffany Ramirez

I think systems that impact marginalized people, whether they really impact me daily or not, those things are a burden on my heart and a burden on my mind and keeps me from getting out here and living my best life.

— Cece Jones-Davis

It's not that we're bringing all of this goodness and peace, because we're not that powerful. We have to uproot the systems, we've got to pull them up. We've got to allow the earth to heal and then the good and free gifts of the earth can come to people.

— Malika Cox