“We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don't fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with solidarity.”
― I Am A Revolutionary: Fred Hampton Speaks
― I Am A Revolutionary: Fred Hampton Speaks
“Yesterday it was love. Today the great passions of unity and liberty disrupt the world. yesterday love led to individual death. Today collective passions make us run the risk of universal destruction. Today, just as yesterday, art wants to save from death a living image of our passions and our sufferings.”
― Resistance, Rebellion and Death: Essays
― Resistance, Rebellion and Death: Essays
“under capitalism, “peace” is the maintenance of violence on the state’s terms.”
― Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care
― Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care
“Grammar is a piano I play by ear.”
― Joan Didion: Essays & Conversations
― Joan Didion: Essays & Conversations
“I don’t want to fade away, I want to flame away - I want my death to be an attraction, a spectacle, a mystery. A work of art.”
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
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