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If we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks with little Nike swishes on them.
We are pregnant with freedom.
A woman’s place is in the struggle.
I realized that I was connected to Africa.
I can't do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
I believe in life. And I have seen the death parade
What most impressed me about Cuba was the optimism.
i Believe In The Fire Of Love And The Sweat Of Truth
A revolutionary woman can't have no reactionary man.
Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
This planet is a wonderful place, but a vulnerable place.
I have advocated and I still advocate revolutionary change
Dreams and reality are opposites. Action synthesizes them.
To become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.
Like all other Black revolutionaries, Amerika is trying to lynch me.
No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them.
It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.
Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.
We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.
The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practise.
I think it's really hard to plan if you don't believe you can implement those plans.
I think that one of the great things that the Cuban revolution has done is preserve history.
In the long run, the people are our only appeal. The only ones who can free us are ourselves.
People are tried and convicted in the newspapers and on television before they ever see a courtroom.
I believe in self-defense and self-determination for Africans and other oppressed people in America.
My energy just couldn’t stop dancing. I was caught up in the music of struggle, and i wanted to dance.
Racism had grown out of slavery and exploitation and was very hard to eradicate quickly and completely.
When I was a child, if someone had talked to me about buying water, I would have thought it was a joke.
All you have to do is ask yourselves, who controls the government? And who are the victims of that control?
I think anybody who is honestly struggling against racism must struggle against imperialism and vice versa.
I think that any time anybody gets rid of oppression, intervention, exploitation, cruelty - that's positive.
Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.
People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows.
And if I know anything at all, it's that a wall is just a wall and nothing more at all. It can be broken down.
Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is....never let your enemies choose your enemies for you.
Hip Hop can be a very effective way to reach young people and teach them about current political and social issues.
I think that, like many sisters, I was raised to be a Superwoman. I am a serious woman, and I want to be taken seriously.
Peace is a rare gift. Peace of mind, peaceful sleeps, and peaceful spirits are all luxuries that few rebels can ever afford.
Being a warrior and being a struggler has been forced on me by oppression, otherwise I would have been free to be so much more.
Some people spell "good" with two o's and some people spell it with one... and there shouldn't be a contradiction between that.
My life wasn't beautiful and creative before I became politically active. My life was totally changed when I began to struggle.
I think that people who want to change this planet have to seriously understand that as human beings we have to work to be good.
Cuba has its own moral system and priorities. That's what keeps it going, the belief that the country can control its own destiny.
Imperialism is the underlying motor of racism. The underlying reason that racism keeps on being promoted in all of its various forms.
The U. S. is becoming more hostile to Black people and other people of color. Racism is running rampant and xenophobia is on the rise
Are you ready to sacrifice to end world hunger? To sacrifice to end colonialism? To end neo-colonialism? To end racism? To end sexism?
I must confess that waltzes do not move me, I guess I hummed the blues too early, and spent too many midnights out wailing to the rain.
How lovely it is to live with a sense of community. To live where you can drop in the street and a million people will come and help you.
We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It's not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves.
