“To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.”
― Twilight of the Idols
― Twilight of the Idols
“People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.”
― Assata: An Autobiography
― Assata: An Autobiography
“if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.”
― Twilight of the Idols
― Twilight of the Idols
“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”
― Twilight of the Idols
― Twilight of the Idols
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