Brittney

“One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.”
― W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk

“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 Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

“All you have to do is ask yourselves, who controls the government? And who are the victims of that control?”
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

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