Favorite quotes

"We should not permit our grievances to overshadow our opportunity." -Booker T. Washington

 

"I don't know what they're doin' with their lives, but me, I'm still on the road."- Tangled Up in Blue by Bob Dylan

 

"You'll get no sympathy from me! You want sympathy, you look in the dictionary between 'shit' and 'syphilis'!" - Major Benson Wineford Payne

 

"Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little." - Tom Stoppard, playwright

 

"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."
-- Bertrand Russell

 

As Malcolm X said (paraphrase): "I'd rather know a real racist and how they feel than have someone act as if they're my friend all the while hating my blackness".

 

'Men are born between a women's legs and spend the rest of their lives trying to get back in between them, because there's no place like home.

 

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today." -Malcolm X

 

"Until Justice is blind to color,Until education is unaware of race,Until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, Emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact" : President Lyndon B. Johnson

 

"Much education today is monumentally ineffective all too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants. : John M. Gardner

 

"Half black is like God's photoshop. Worst case scenario you'll probably end up with the chick from Avatar"

 

"Terrorism is the act or threat of violence to attain goals that are political, religious or idealogical. No one has done this more than the US"

 

"If you have no critics you'll likely have no success." -Malcolm X

 

"I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence." -Malcolm X

 

"You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it." -Morpheus

 

"There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth." -Maya Angelou

 

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses. " -Malcolm X

 

"Words of truth in the past, that still haunt us in the future"

 

"Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them." Andrew V. Mason.

 

I read this the other day and I haven't stopped laughing- "I hate when I forget to turn my swag off at night and I wake up covered in bitches"