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Andaiye
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“For us, here, a key aspect of anti-austerity organizing we would need to take back up is the search for an alternative economic vision with people and nature at its center; and by putting people at the center I mean at the center of decision-making about economic development.”
Andaiye (1942–2019) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Gender, Race, and Class: A Perspective on the Contemporary Caribbean Struggle" (2009), collected in The Point is to Change the World: Selected Writings of Andaiye edited by Alissa Trotz (2020)
“I'm always being accused of not feeling strongly enough about the location of the Black person. I don't know why you can't feel more than one thing at the same time, or why you can't see out of both your eyes. I perfectly well feel the location of the Black person. That doesn't stop me from seeing other people's location.”
Andaiye (1942–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My strongest memory of both Ratoon and New World is the excitement of being part of a world of ideas, because, after all, my other world is one that has increasingly moved far away from the ferment and enthusiasm of the fifties to something that behaves as if there's no way out.”
Andaiye (1942–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One of the things that strikes me about now is that if you talk to Indo-Guyanese and Afro-Guyanese they can tell you the same story as two stories; and it's now crystallized even into what (television] stations we look at. Afro-Guyanese get their news from some stations, and Indo-Guyanese get their news from others. That first started for me in the 1960s: these two different stories from these two people living in the same place.”
Andaiye (1942–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“if you want to talk about “empowering” any group of people, it is because you believe or know that something is taking power away from that group...For me, then, the first question is, what are the factors that stop young people in Guyana today from developing or using their power.”
Andaiye (1942–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Sometime soon, some of you have to try walk across the divisions between you and join yourselves together to become the power you can be. Only then, whichever party or other group you belong to, can you work out your demands (not your requests) as young people, work out how you will make them happen, and make them happen.”
Andaiye (1942–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I hated a lot of things about the Guyana in which I grew up, so I am not romanticising when I say that in spite of all that was wrong with it, it was as a child in that Guyana that I learned you could change your place. And one important reason was, that I grew up when men and women whom you came to know only as belonging to this party or that party, or this race or that race, joined together when they themselves were still young people in their twenties, to show that “ordinary” people could transform their world. That we didn’t have to be a colony. That people, poor and some not poor, women and men, from the races that were despised, could organise together and refuse to stay in their place.”
Andaiye (1942–2019) said by 2019 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source