“People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.”

People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.

The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.

Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.

We are pregnant with freedom.

Hip Hop can be a very powerful weapon to help expand young people’s political and social consciousness.

A revolutionary woman can’t have no reactionary man. If he’s not about liberation, if he’s not about struggle, if he ain’t about building a strong Black family, if he ain’t about building a strong Black nation, then he ain’t about nothing.

We’re living in a very tricky world, and unless we become analytical and expose the tricknology, people will become sucked into that. It is very easy, it is very, very easy.

This planet is a wonderful place, but a vulnerable place.

Imperialism is the underlying motor of racism. The underlying reason that racism keeps on being promoted in all of its various forms.

I realized that I was connected to Africa.

Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is – never let your enemies choose your enemies for you.

Every person that steps up and commits to social change helps solidify the black movement cause. It is not easy for those who fill in the leader role.

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.

Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.

We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.

I hate war, and I hate having to struggle. I honestly do because I wish I had been born into a world where it was unnecessary.

We’re only going to keep getting better. Let’s keep growing and changing the game.

I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend’s prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief.

He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.

The challenge before us right now is still immense and growing, and so is the need for bold action to fight this pandemic.

Alibaba is an ecosystem that helps small business to grow.

Without frustration you will not discover that you might be able to do something on your own. We grow through conflict.

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.