You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain amount of madness. In this case, it comes from nonconformity, the courage to turn your back on the old formulas, the courage to invent the future.

- Thomas Sankara

To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive, and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy to suppose that religion was the subject to which it would be directed; and, although this subject principally occupied my thoughts, there was nothing that I saw or heard of to which my attention was not directed… I heard a loud noise in the heavens, and the Spirit instantly appeared to me and said the Serpent was loosened, and Christ had laid down the yoke he had borne for the sins of men, and that I should take it on and fight against the Serpent, for the time was fast approaching when the first should be last and the last should be first.

Nat Turner

Don't believe everything you hear: Real eyes, Realize, Real lies.

War comes and goes but a soldier stays eternal.

Tupac Amaru Shakur

“Be realistic, demand the impossible!”
“Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his truths.”
“I would rather die standing up to live life on my knees.”
“The only passion that guides me is for the truth... I look at everything from this point of view.”

- Ernesto “Che” Guevara

By overthrowing me, you have only defeated the trunk of the tree of freedom; it will grow back because its roots are deep, numerous, and vivacious.

François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture “Black Spartacus”

Maturity has taught me that I don’t need to confront everything, I just need to silently observe people’s actions and then set boundaries accordingly.
Be so rooted in yourself that nobody’s absence or presence can disturb your inner peace.
Some people will never like you because your spirit irritates their demons.

- Denzel Hayes Washington Jr.

Education develops the intellect; and the intellect distinguishes man from other creatures. It is education that enables man to harness nature and utilize her resources for the well-being and improvement of his life.

Place principle above all else.

That which man dreams of and to Which he aspires, unless fulfilled in his own lifetime, can produce no actual satisfaction to him. It will be self deceiving and a waste of time to advocate dialogue with those who are not ready to listen, because it is obvious that the freedom of millions is not a commodity subject to bargaining. It is better to die free than to live as slaves.

- Haile Selassie

Violence is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex and from his despair and inaction; it makes him fearless and restores his self-respect

Frantz Fanon

Go to work in the morn of a new creation…until you have…reached the height of self-progress, and from that pinnacle bestow upon the world a civilization of your own.

- Marcus Garvey

We have to keep in mind at all times that we are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as free humans in this society…
There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance next time.

- Malcom X

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.

- William Edward Burghardt Du Bois