Abena Busia Quotes

We are all mothers,and we have that fire within us,of powerful womenwhose spirits are so angry, we can laugh beauty into life and still make you taste the salty tears of our knowledge.

You cannot know how long we cried until we laughed over the broken pieces of our dreams.

Dreamers remember their dreams when they are disturbed;And you shall not escape what we will make of the broken pieces of our lives.

Violence is both visible and invisible.

New family law can end violence against women.

The idea of family however conceived is at the root of old family structure and we leave in a world were those family structure are in the end the basis of the legal, religious,social and state laws under which we live.

Historically leadership and the concept has always been the top down one most of us who do leadership training we do the bottom up leadership you don't impose structure you figure out organically who the people are.

What makes a leader different is the different communication styles respecting different forms of leadership.

Thinking through what makes a leader, how do you communicate and how do you organize yourself.

A lot of work is being done by feminist because we have to think about breaking the glass ceilings and think about if the systems we have been living under will work for us what is different what to do.

I came to the United States of America conscious of my African-ness, conscious of my blackness, I became conscious of women studies and became a feminist.