"When we send our children to school, they learn nothing about us other than we used to be cotton pickers. Why, your grandfather was Nat Turner; your grandfather was Toussaint L'Ouverture; your grandfather was Hannibal. It was your grandfather's hands who forged civilization and it was your grandmother's hands who rocked the cradle of civilization. But the textbooks tell our children nothing."

-- Malcolm X

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“Warriors of light are not perfect.Their beauty lies in accepting this fact and still desiring to grow and to learn.”
“Is the Moon made out of green cheese? No, it's American cheese.”
“Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure - the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.”
“Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods' roes. Most of all he liked grilled mutton kidneys which gave to his palate a fine tang of faintly scented urine.”
“Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. Let him who is not in community beware of being alone.”
“I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.”
“Nothing can prepare you for the changes that take place in your life - for the changes, not only in my life, but my family's. Nothing can prepare you for the enormity and the transition that you go through.”
“When I wrote the book, I thought that I was the hero of my story. And in writing it, I came to realize over time that my mom was the hero. And I was, you know - I was just her punk-ass sidekick.”

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