Bam Adebayo Quotes

We actually know that all lives do matter. And we believe it is so much so that we had to create Black Lives Matter.

You know I think with Black Lives Matter, it is extremely special and important. I definitely feel that.

Black Lives Matter has already demonstrated that it has the power to shift the societal landscape by bringing awareness to age-old issues that have plagued us as a people.

I think #BlackLivesMatter is a huge campaign that is important and integral to our advancement as a people.

For me, it's clear Beyonce sees herself as a part of the movement for black lives and believes that black lives matter - and ultimately, that's what matters.

The Black Lives Matter movement has spawned all kinds of activism.

The Black Lives Matter movement has to, by its very nature, be intersectional because of the complexities of who black people are in this country and throughout the world.

When Black Lives Matter started, it was polarizing.

We want Black power.

When people of color and their allies say today that Black Lives Matter, the nation must hear and see it through the lens of all that has come before and understand that they speak truth.

With the Black Lives Matter movement, a lot of the focus is on the protest and dissent. I'm hoping to dismantle the public notion - for folks outside of the community - of what Black Lives Matter means. It's really about saying that black lives matter: that humanity is the same when you go inside people's homes.

If you're into social justice it's hard not to be on black people's side.

I am very happy for all the players doing the Black Lives Matter bend the knee. We are all in the same boat.

The reason why 'Black Lives Matter' is a chant is because a lot of people feel, myself included, that sometimes they don't matter.

I mean we just simply can't stand for the systemic racism, social injustice and police brutality against the black community anymore. And it's really about standing up for what's right versus what's wrong.

With Black Lives Matter, we knew from the very beginning that it wasn't just going to live online. We were like, 'We're creating this thing and then it's also going to live with black folks on the street and protests and organizations.' It was very important for us to use the hashtag as a way to have a larger conversation and as an organizing tool.

Whether or not you call it Black Lives Matter, whether or not you put a hashtag in front of it, whether or not you call it the Movement for Black Lives, all of that is irrelevant. Because there was resistance before Black Lives Matter, and there will be resistance after Black Lives Matter.

Unlike earlier black-power movements that tried to fight or segregate for self-preservation, Black Lives Matter aligns with the dead, continues the mourning, and refuses the forgetting in front of all of us.

Our duty is to fight! Then we can adjust the problems that remain in the life of the colored man.

The fight against racism must be seen as a revolutionary one.

I think Black Lives Matter has some really thuggish elements in it. Look - at the risk of being incredibly politically incorrect, but I guess that's my job - I think that all lives matter. Not least black lives.

If a brand will shy away from you because you dare to say that black lives matter, that's probably not a brand you want to work with anyway.

Black lives do matter, and our lives do hold value.

I'm here to say all lives matter.

#BlackLivesMatter is about black pride and black power and standing up against a world that tries to annihilate us.