"Now I see why reading was illegal for black people during slavery. I discover that I think in words. The more words I know, the more things I can think about. My vocab and thoughts grow together like the stem and petals of a flower. Reading was illegal because if you limit someone's vocab, you limit their thoughts. They can't even think of freedom because they don't have the language to."

-- M. K. Asante

#Flower Quotes #Reading Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Belief builds from scratch. Doesnâ€™t have to relax, it doesnâ€™t need space”

Source : Song: Belief 2, Album: Chariot, 2003
“You see, it's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion [Islam] too would have been more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?”
“Proverbs are for the most part rules of moral, or, still more properly, of prudential conduct.”
“This country, and the West Coast, especially, is bad at preserving any cultural legacy.”
“Never underestimate the power of the mind to disempower.”
“There comes a point in your moviegoing life where you look at the screen and then you look at the world and you ask, 'What is going on?' You want the movies to show you the chaos and mess and risk and failure that are normal for a lot of us. Generally, the movies hide all of that.”
“We had so much press, and then they get bored... I think we've done well to keep going.”
“People, please remember that I choose my words very carefully. Assumptions are your enemy.”

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