"When it comes to the discussion of oppression in America, we've been experiencing the worst of it for a long time. What's exciting to me is the prospect of going from worst to first in a forward-moving transformation which is going to take groups of dispossessed black folks here and others and make us controllers of our own destiny."

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Source : Source: bknation.org

Chokwe Lumumba

#Moving Quotes #Destiny Quotes #America Quotes

“What is it at which all true artists are aiming? It is life, it is reality.”
“Even if you try to copy a film shot by shot, you still can't. It's still your own film.”

Source : Interview with Briony Hanson, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2009.
“Let's grease the wheel over tea, let's discuss things in confidence. Let's be outspoken, let's be ridiculous, let's solve the world's problems.”
“The seas are the heart's blood of the earth.”

Source : Henry Beston (1956). “The Outermost House”
“I do not believe in personal immortality; it seems so unnecessary. Show me one man who deserves to live forever.”
“... social roles vary in the extent to which it is culturally permissible to express ambivalence or negative feelings toward them.Ambivalence can be admitted most readily toward those roles that are optional, least where they are considered primary. Thus men repress negative feelings toward work and feel freer to express negative feelings toward leisure, sex and marriage, while women are free to express negative feelings toward work but tend to repress them toward family roles.”
“I was a terrible Sugar Babies addict, so I had more cavities than the surface of the moon.”
“When our minds as people normally starts to wrap around things, we start to attach all these ideas to it that really aren't that necessary to the core of it, if you just experience it and kind of go through it.”

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