"Black men loving black men is THE revolutionary act."

-- Marlon Riggs

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“Good work is the only thing that would make me feel jealous or envious.”
“Pain will never leave us. Instead of putting energy into destroying pain, we need to put energy into creating pleasure.”

Source : Tom Hodgkinson (2006). “How to be Free”
“An armed society is a free society.”
“Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.”
“When we were making vinyl records we had a lot of time limitations for each record so songs were left off for a number of reasons. Now, with CDs, much more music can be included.”
“Do you know what the Negro is? Animal right out of the jungle. Passion. Welfare. Easy life. That's the Negro.”
“If you're too sloppy, then you never get reproducible results, then you never get reproducible results, and then you never can draw any conclusions; but if you are just a little sloppy, then when you see something startling, (...) you nail it down (...). So I called it the "Principle of Limited Sloppiness".”

Source : Oral History Project Interview, California Institute of Technology Archives, pp. 76-77, oralhistories.library.caltech.edu. 1978.
“Repentance is the word that gives us a second chance.”

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