Annabelle Kortum &
The Purpose of Power by Alicia Garza

Hope is not the absence of despair-it is the ability to come back to our purpose, again and again. My purpose is to build political power for my community so that we can be powerful in every aspect of our lives. My work is to transform grief and despair and rage into the love that we need to push us forward. I an not, and we are not, defined by what we lackwe are defined by how we come together when we fall apart.