"Racism is a system of power and in the absence of power you cannot be considered a racist."

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Source : "We Are At War". Speech at Cheyney State University, www.blackpast.org. 1994.

Sister Souljah

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“All of television's appalling, but this is hardly a new statement.”
“Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.”
“The Cross! There, and there only (though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave); There and there only, is the power to save.”

Source : William Cowper, D Macvean (1830). “Poems”, p.36
“The war of good and evil is mightiest in mightiest souls, and even in the darkest time the heart will maintain its right against the hardest creed.”
“Entertainers wrongly assume that their fame, money, and influence arise from broad knowledge rather than natural talent, looks, or mastery of a narrow skill.”
“One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it.”
“The worse the coming future, the more it should motivate its opponents.”
“I hope that I state your case fairly: One of my great fears is misrepresenting you, even to myself, now that you are not here to set me right. The truth is that you did not believe in idealism. All love was suspect; even a saint's was just differed self-interest. And it was impossible to argue without sounding either sentimental or naive. Cynicism has all the smart words on it's side; idealism uses a nursery school dictionary. And you studied early to disguise your childhood pain. But it is not universal.”

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