“I am not angry or ashamed about the traumas I've endured, at this point, I couldn't imagine myself without them. I wouldn't erase them from my past because they are my greatest source of strength.”
“What you gain another will lose, for What is there is all there is. What you share another will have, for What is there is enough for all.”
Source: Another Day From the World of Ro and Mo
“To all the therapists, psychologists, all the way to the appointment setters; thank you giving your time and energy to help.
Even if you don't have it all together, you show up. I only got to this point where I could write about my recovery because of you.
Thank you for the gift of life!”
Source: THE MAP : A Lived Guide to Recovery
“Great, Alexia thought, I have gone from soul sucker to electrical ground. The epithets just get sweeter and sweeter.”
Source: Soulless
“Like Rachel Dolezal, I too became black around the age of five. I first became a n----r at nine, so I had me a good run.”
Source: The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race
“I don't like the way our community throws the word around like it's water, because it's a derogatory term. A lot of times people come up to me and say, "What's up my nigger?" I'll respond, "Nah, wait a minute. What?" "Oh, oh, what's up my brother?" Sometimes you have to check people, because if it gets loose with us then white people will start to use it. I know a bunch of white people that started to get lax so I had to check them. Some black people were afraid to check them because they thought it was cool. You can never turn that word around and make it cool Nigger is just derogatory, it's wrong, and it's a fucked up term. It's not a word of love, Yo, what's up my nigger?" Fuck that. You can't turn the word puss around. Go around and say, "What's up pussy" to a brother. He'll try to kill you. "What's up dickhead?" You can't turn that around, so you can't turn nigger around as hard as you try.”
Source: Lyrics of a Rap Revolutionary, Vol. 1
“This is one of many expressions which, colourless and even meaningless at first, have been developed into recognized terms of abuse by sloppy writers, prejudiced thinkers and powerful evangelists. The ordinary reasonable man has been trained to shudder away from a 'reactionary' as he does from a 'vested interest', though he may have no clear notion of the nature of either.
"What is a Reactionary?”
Source: More Uncommon Law
“Be the last refuge for those refused. In you lies solution, in you lies the truth.”
Source: Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood
“No more hatred, no more segregation, no more "my culture, your culture", "my ancestor, your ancestor", "my people, your people", fudge it all - every people ever wronged are our people, and predators that ever wronged a human community, are our first enemy, they are the first enemy of the human race, as such they belong either in jail or in the jungle, or in a mental institution, even if they belong to the same ethnicity as us.”
Source: With Love From A Blue Rock
“What if I wish for impossible things?
Then you're doing it right. It always seems impossible when you first start.”
Source: In the Lives of Puppets