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“This is a memoir of (my) body because, more often than not, stories of bodies like mine are ignored or dismissed or derided.”
― Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
― Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
“I could hear something so I realized, of course, what he was trying to tell me was first of all, don’t be judgmental of anybody else, just listen and pay attention and look for the beauty. And then when you find the beauty, study that and don’t bother with the rest of it.53”
― Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original
― Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original
“The man of courage is not the man who did not face adversity. The man of courage is the man who faced adversity and spoke to it. The man of courage tells adversity, "You're trespassing and I give you no authority to steal my joy, my faith or my hope.”
― How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
― How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
“Too often, our standards for evaluating social movements pivot around whether or not they "succeeded" in realizing their visions rather than on the merits or power of the visions themselves. By such a measure, virtually every radical movement failed because the basic power relations they sought to change remained pretty much intact. And yet it is precisely these alternative visions and dreams that inspire new generations to struggle for change.”
― Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination
― Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination
“Furthermore, by injecting moneymaking into the relationship between a citizen and the basic services of life—water, roads, electricity, and education—privatization distorts the social contract. People need to know that the decisions of governments are being made with the common good as a priority. Anything else is not government; it is commerce. One”
― Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond
― Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond
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