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According to @meganfrancis one of the major takeaways from this election: "It is organized people of color that will be the true guardrails of democracy and not antiquated political institutions." #BendingtheArc @HarvardAsh

"America is predicated on essentially 4 legs: white supremacy, anti-Black racism, patriarchy, and a certain type of racialized capitalism. You have to understand that's the foundation of America. Once you get that, none of these [election] results are surprising." -- @Dr_CMGreer

"It is Black women who are the keepers of democracy and the Democratic Party...who essentially pull the data where it looks like all women are overwhelmingly Democrats when they are not." -- @Dr_CMGreer on the fact that white women vote far more for the Republican Party

Though one of the most common narratives people cited when voting for Trump in 2016 was economic anxiety, according to #SophiaJordanWallace, “Scholars of race and politics knew that was nonsense…you have to center race to understand American politics."

"The idea of democracy is a deeply fragile concept but it's also something that's bloody, it's deeply violent, exclusive. It attends to this idea of us as a deeply polarized nation. We're not just a polarized nation but that polarization is racially polarized." -- @LeahRigueur

"Democracy is possible. And what is amazing to see is what kind of turnout we can get, what kind of participation we can get, when we make democracy accessible to all." -- @LeahRigueur #BendingtheArc @HarvardAsh

"Black women have been organizing for decades, dare I say centuries, free and not free, to make sure our communities survive let alone thrive." -- @Dr_CMGreer on the long tradition of Black women organizing and pulling men along #BendingtheArc