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Revolutionary suicide does not mean that I and my comrades have a death wish; it means just the opposite. We have such a strong desire to live with hope and human dignity that existence without them is impossible.
“I ain't never found no place for me to fit. Seem like all I do is start over. It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself.”
― Joe Turner's Come and Gone
― Joe Turner's Come and Gone
“may you kiss
the wind then turn from it
certain that it will
love your back”
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the wind then turn from it
certain that it will
love your back”
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“When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity.”
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“If there’s no one else to tell another side - the only story that can be told is the story that becomes true. (p. 173)”
― The Girl Who Fell from the Sky
― The Girl Who Fell from the Sky
“I always tell my students that Malcolm X came both to his spirituality and to his consciousness as a thinker when he had solitude to read. Unfortunately, tragically, like so many young black males, that solitude only came in prison.”
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