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Aaliyah
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That was the year Zosma sank to its knees and bled great gouts of men into a war about nothing.
“To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. ”
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“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
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“Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
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“The paradox of education is precisely this - that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated. ”
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“The poet or the revolutionary is there to articulate the necessity, but until the people themselves apprehend it, nothing can happen ... Perhaps it can't be done without the poet, but it certainly can't be done without the people. The poet and the people get on generally very badly, and yet they need each other. The poet knows it sooner than the people do. The people usually know it after the poet is dead; but that's all right. The point is to get your work done, and your work is to change the world.”
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Aaliyah’s 2025 Year in Books
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