"Politics is the art of making the people believe that they are in power, when in fact, they have none."

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Source : FaceBook post by Mumia Abu Jamal from Aug 26, 2011

Mumia Abu-Jamal

#Art Quotes #Believe Quotes #People Quotes

“Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It's part of racing.”
“...women are elephants and watch the way you say that in front of them because they'll think you're calling them fat and there's no coming back from that moment. But they hoard. They say they don't, but they do. We think that if something's not spoken about again, it goes away. It doesn't. Nothing goes away just like that...”
“I worry about my nan. If she's alone and falls, does she make a noise? I'm joking, she's dead.”
“You can experience play at work, not because you're messing around or wasting time or something, but because you're looking really deeply and seriously at things and asking what is possible, what can be done with them, what new ideas might emerge?”

Source : Source: app.longform.org
“Punk is just like any other sub culture or music. Straight rock music has those elements. I grew up in a place where the punk rock kids fed the homeless in the town square.”

Source : "Anti-Flag to incite May Day masses" by Mark Brown, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2006.
“When I sign on to a television show, I have to love that show and character so much, but this [Mistresses] was in and out, for seven episodes. And it was nice to be able to make some money again because I hadn't work in a year and a half. There were a lot of pluses.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“In Canada we have enough to do keeping up with two spoken languages ... so we just go right ahead and use English for literature, Scotch for sermons, and American for conversation.”
“Before I was 20, I was the leading architect of the Southwest.”

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