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“No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free.”
― Assata Shakur

“When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.”
― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“We are surrounded by story.”
― Alice McDermott

“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

“It seems only yesterday I used to believe
there was nothing under my skin but light.
If you cut me I could shine.”
― Billy Collins

“Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.”
― Dr. Seuss