"Hip Hop can be a very powerful weapon to help expand young people's political and social consciousness. But just as with any weapon, if you don't know how to use it, if you don't know where to point it, or what you're using it for, you can end up shooting yourself in the foot or killing your sisters or brothers."

-- Assata Shakur

#Brother Quotes #Powerful Quotes #Feet Quotes

“Once Liverpool had asked me to sign again, there was no hesitation.”
“What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact.”
“The personal deportment of Captain Perry, throughout the day, was worthy of all praise. He did not quit his own vessel when she became useless, to retire from the battle, but to gain it; an end that was fully obtained, and an effort which resulted in triumph.”

Source : "History of the Navy of the United States of America". Book by James Fenimore Cooper, 1856.
“Figure out what to do, then take a nap.”
“It was a sound like someone trying not to make a sound.”
“Oh abstractions are just abstract until they have an ache in them.”

Source : Stephen Dunn (1990). “Between Angels”, p.142, W. W. Norton & Company
“If someone asked me what a human being ought to devote the maximum of his life to, I would answer: training. Train more than you sleep.”
“Often when works at a hard question, nothing good is accomplished at the first attack. Then one takes a rest, long or short, and sits down anew to the work. During the first half-hour, as before, nothing is found, and then all of a sudden the decisive idea presents itself to the mind.”

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