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.
-Assata Shakur
All articles filed in words of wisdom
Malcolm X on How to Act
Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.
Malcolm X
Marc Lamont Hill on Depicting Black Americans
They call us lazy, but they made us slaves. They called us uncivilized, but they let us raise their children. They call us dirty, but for much of the 20th century, blacks worked in the homes of whites as cooks and maids.
Dr. Marc Lamont Hill (via headwrapandcamera)
Noam Chomsky on US politics
In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
Noam Chomsky (via changingperspective)
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