"Activism is not a journey to the corner store. It is a plunge into the unknown. The future is always dark."

-- Rebecca Solnit

#Dark Quotes #Journey Quotes #Plunge Quotes

“How do I get past my fears? Make a life for myself? Risk loving someone? When death is all that waits for you, what's the point in trying to have a life?”
“A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law”
“It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.”
“I dress women the way I see them and the way I envision them from day one, thus my customer knows that what she is looking for she will get.”
“We need to forget what we think we are, so that we can really become what we are.”
“Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don't teach you anything.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“My dad worked several jobs to pay for my expense in skating.”
“The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.”

Source : Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.11, Book Tree

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