April 2011
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“Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. We have seen the future, and the future is ours.”
—César Chávez (via themodernisis)
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“What can get worse can get better; and what can get better can get worse. In the meantime, (forever) it is entirely up to me.”
—Hm …
From The Heart (a haiku)
I write poetry
By tearing out my heart and
Telling it to write.
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“I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.”
—John Steinbeck (Winter of our Discontent)
“We were kids without fathers…so we found our fathers on wax and on the streets and in history, and in a way, that was a gift. We got to pick and choose the ancestors who would inspire the world we were going to make for ourselves…Our fathers were gone, usually because they just bounced, but we took their old records and used them to build something fresh.”
—Jay Z.
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