At a recent speaking event, I told the audience that I live by two mottos:
"I wouldn’t dare call myself woke when there’s still so much waking to do." and "I wouldn’t dare call myself decolonized when there’s still so much decolonizing to do."
When we’ve decided to call ourselves woke, we are disregarding the journey of becoming woke along the way. When we say we are already decolonized, we are neglecting the seriousness of the journey toward decolonizing in all its complexities.
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