bell hooks (especially all about love & sisterhood of the yam)

Harriet Tubman

Sojourner Truth

Buddha

Jesus 

Cleopatra

Audre Lorde

Marsha P. Johnson

Angela Davis

Toni Morrison

Parable of the Sower & Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler

Mickey ScottBey Jones (brave space)

James Baldwin

Alice Walker (womanism)

Combahee River Collective 

Mckensie Mack (intersectional equity & transformative justice)

ShiShi Rose (Black liberation & Black maternal care)

Toi Smith (liberatory business)

Meenadchi (decolonized non-violent communication & family constellations)

Tricia Hersey (rest as resistance)

Ndeye Oumou Sylla

Kai Cheng Thom (embodied conflict resolution)

Imani Barbarin (@crutchesandspice)

J Mase III

Beyoncé

Solange Knowles

Cleo Sol 

Adrienne Maree Brown

Sonya Renee Taylor

Uncle Clifford from P-Valley

Brujas of Brooklyn

Zeba Blay

Kiese Laymon 

Janet Mock

EbonyJanice (Black liberation)

Ritchie Reseda (abolition)

Patrisse Cullors (co-founder of BLM, abolition)

Ashtin Berry (@collectress)

Sebene Selassis

Ericka Hart

Ijeoma Oluo

Iya Ehime Ora

Amanda Seales

Akwaeke Emezi (author/artist)

Larissa Crawford 

Allen Salway (lilnativeboy)

Nazbah Tom (generative somatics)

Charlie Amáyá Scott (@dinaeaesthetics)

Dionne Elizabeth (creative liberation)

Brittney C. Cooper (Black feminism)

Dr. Joy deGruy (post-traumatic slave disorder)

Malcolm X

Martin Luther King, Jr. (especially Letters from Birmingham Jail)

Steve Biko 

Marcus Garvey

Dr. Gabor Mate

Issa Rae

Tupac Shakur

Bear Hebert (anti-capitalism)

Mia Schacter (consent & boundary work)

Kristopher Oak

Ariana Brown (poet)

Gab Alexa

Billy Chapata (@iambrillyant)

Xavier Dagba