Deal with yourself as an individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.
Nikki Giovanni
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Langston Hughes on Getting there
I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
Langston Hughes
Malcolm X – Who Taught You to Hate Yourself?
Who taught you to hate the texture of your hair? Who taught you to hate the color of your skin, to such extent that you bleach to get like the white man? Who taught you to hate the shape of your nose, and the shape of your lips? Who taught you to hate yourself, from…
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Frantz Fanon on Decolonization
Decolonization never takes place unnoticed, for it influences individuals and modifies them fundamentally. It transforms spectators crushed with their inessentiality into privileged actors, with the grandiose glare of history’s floodlights upon them. It brings a natural rhythm into existence, introduced by new men, and with it a new language and a new humanity. Decolonization is the veritable creation of new men. But this creation owes nothing of its legitimacy to any supernatural power; the “thing” which has been colonized becomes man during the same process by which it frees itself.
Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
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