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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.

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The first part of planning is to believe that you can put that plan into practice.
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I realized that I was connected to Africa.
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Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.
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I believe in living, I believe in birth, I believe in the sweat of love and in the fire of truth and I believe that a lost ship, steered by tired, sea sick sailors, can still be guided home to port.
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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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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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Where there is oppression, there will be resistance.
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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.
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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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We’re taught at such an early age to be against the communists, yet most of us don’t have the faintest idea what communism is. Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.
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When I was a child, if someone had talked to me about buying water, I would have thought it was a joke.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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I don’t have to live up to that Superwoman myth. I can cry and be human and lean on people who take care of me. That can be very liberating.
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