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“People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.”
― James Baldwin

“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity.”
― Edvard Munch

“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
― Fitzgerald F. Scott, The Great Gatsby

“This portrait would be to him the most magical of mirrors. As it had revealed to him his own body, so it would reveal to him his own soul.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.”
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

“No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free.”
― Assata Shakur

“The rulers of this country have always considered their property more important than our lives.”
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

“We’re taught at such an early age to be against the communists, yet most of us don’t have the faintest idea what communism is. Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is.”
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

“Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.”
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.”
― Antonio Gramsci