"An HBCU that is not inherently revolutionary is irrelevant."

Society, Revolution, Education, Change, Identity

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"Our minds of infinite possibilities have been plowed, seeded and cultivated by every word, institution and sacred belief we hold dear, to produce a foul harvest of exclusion, apathy, brute domination and death."

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"In a stress pressure-cooker like America, I believe we will see more and more shooting massacres. Violence is in our cultural DNA."

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"When you don't make it too far from the plantation, you might as well befriend your captors."

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"Not everything set on fire will rise."

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"You asked me to be an open book. As I've already told you, I am. Anything you need to know about me can be found. Don't confuse me, a paperback, with a book on tape."

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