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

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Hip Hop can be a very powerful weapon to help expand young people’s political and social consciousness.
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Consicious Help Hip Hop People Politics Powerful Social Weapon Young
I can’t do nothin except try to find cloud nine.
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Cloud Execpt Try
I realized that I was connected to Africa.
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Connection Country Realize
Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.
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Crazy Inspirational Strong Weak
The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
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Believe Business Planning Practice
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.
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Growth Oppression People Slave Tolerance
We usually reach success by putting the simple truths that we know into practice.
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Practice Success Truth
Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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Oppression Resistance
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.
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Change Movement Racism Social
Imperialism is the underlying motor of racism. The underlying reason that racism keeps on being promoted in all of its various forms.
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Form Promotion Racism Reason
When you go through all your life processing and abusing your hair so it will look like the hair of another race of people then you are making a statement and the statement is clear.
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Abuse Hairs Life People Process Race Statement
Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is – never let your enemies choose your enemies for you.
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Choose Enemy Fools
Peace is a rare gift. Peace of mind, peaceful sleeps, and peaceful spirits are all luxuries that few rebels can ever afford.
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Afford Gift Luxury Mind Peace Rare Rebel Sleep Spirit
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.
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Growth Oppression People Slave Tolerance
If you’re deaf, dumb, and blind to what’s happening in the world, you’re under no obligation to do anything. But if you know what’s happening and you don’t do anything but sit on your ass, then you’re nothing but a punk.
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Blind Deaf Dumb Obligation World
Black people will never be free unless black women participate in every aspect of our struggle, on every level of our struggle.
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Black Lives Matter Level Participation People Struggle Women Power

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