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"They sit there shouting "Don't do it." Someone told them revolution looked like the Cosby Show. A slight tug with a good lesson. Revolution is a tough struggle between what was and what needs to be."
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"We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back."
"Denying the facts is what enables people to hate and to persecute marginalized and threatened minority groups. Labeling the advocacy, educational and informational initiatives of these persecuted minority groups dismissively as 'propaganda for the gay agenda' undermines, belittles and trivializes the cause of those whose right to exist is under threat."
"We don't need any more writers as solitary heroes. We need a heroic writer's movement: assertive, militant, pugnacious."
"A poet's work . . . to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep."
"Any government's condemnation of terrorism is only credible if it shows itself to be responsive to persistent, reasonable, closely argued, non-violent dissent. And yet, what's happening is just the opposite. The world over, non-violent resistance movements are being crushed and broken. If we do not respect and honour them, by default we privilege those who turn to violent means."
"I care about a lot of issues. I care about libraries, I care about healthcare, I care about homelessness and unemployment. I care about net neutrality and the steady erosion of our liberties both online and off. I care about the rich/poor divide and the rise of corporate business."
"This Revolution is genuine because it was born from the same womb that always gives birth to massive social upheavals - the womb of intolerable conditions and unendurable situations."
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"The black man today will only find solitude in one place: prison. ironically, he becomes most free while incarcerated."
"It's crazy. My life has been full of fun and adventure. but i love meeting people who make me feel like I've done nothing."
"As an artist, one of the toughest things to do is getting someone to understand why you think the way you think. And as much as i don't wanna care what they think about my thinking, it comes down to making them understand or watching them leave."
"I have to believe in reincarnation. believing that I'll be in one place forever is a hell in itself."
"I wish I didn't need words to speak to her. They sometimes hold very different meanings for us both."
"If they knew how much you kept inside to keep from hurting them, but hurting yourself instead, maybe they'd love you more."
"What you don't think about when you're planning for children is when you're going to teach them how not to be killed."
"If you weren't built for this life, you'd be dead by now. i think the problem is people don't share enough of their pain with the world, so they never know who else is in pain, too, and what others are going through. we're never really alone in anything."
"I'm not sure what it was or where she sprayed it, but her scent will be the end of the life I loved. And I will find comfort in the simpleness of sitting with her on a Saturday afternoon with nothing else to do."
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