
Ayishat Akanbi is probably the first hypersane person I’ve ever come across, recommended by Scott Barry Kaufman to follow. Her sense of self-awareness is so broad that she can articulate complex things quite simply. Yet what she’s saying will be very hard for people to swallow because it requires taking an emotional and mental U-turn on what we believe, so that we can build upon and live what we say we truly value. To do this, one really needs to go beyond one’s sense of self, letting it disintegrate, so that a newer larger sense of Self can reintegrate and be born. Painful, yes…but with a beautiful truth.
I don’t see a lot as exceedingly complex. Many things are fairly simple, but the trouble is that simple isn’t easy.
Ayishat Akanbi
People are in for a rude and crushing awakening when they realise the problems of this world are not the sole cause of one group.
Ayishat Akanbi
You have to let the idea of yourself get out of the way of yourself.
Ayishat Akanbi
Intelligence is not only theory, academia, and big words. It is painful, gruelling and temporarily obliterating self-reflection.
Ayishat Akanbi
If you think black, and brown people don’t feel silenced, alienated, and threatened by the mainstream narrative that turns our everyday interactions into a game of power, you might be unaware of the variety of thought that exists in people who look just like you.
Ayishat Akanbi