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Black Power by Stokely Carmichael
"So you want to protest? Read this. I appreciate the dissection of a problem in a world where cognitive dissonance exists. The identification of the problem will encourage us to enact solutions. For the person who might complain that this book only identifies a problem, they should go back in time. It was published in 1967. The problem needed to be identified... over and over so that the oppressed could see what they were up against. That is war tactic. Clearly, many still do not comprehend this and will make moves before fully and wholly knowing what they’re up against and knowing how. That is weak. There are carefully devised distractions that make people forget that the problem even exists!!! We are complaining about the identification of it?!! Well, if that is your thinking, you are standing still. We need to read and re-read and rediscover until we are moved into action. If you have a problem with the the words that identify the problem, what are you going to do? Show us, lead the way. "
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UserQuote91332666 Sun, 13 Oct 2024 14:27:43 -0700 <![CDATA[Shoak liked a quote by Kahlil Gibran]]> /quotes/1213937
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Do not love half lovers
Do not entertain half friends
Do not indulge in works of the half talented
Do not live half a life
and do not die a half death
If you choose silence, then be silent
When you speak, do so until you are finished
Do not silence yourself to say something
And do not speak to be silent
If you accept, then express it bluntly
Do not mask it
If you refuse then be clear about it
for an ambiguous refusal is but a weak acceptance
Do not accept half a solution
Do not believe half truths
Do not dream half a dream
Do not fantasize about half hopes
Half a drink will not quench your thirst
Half a meal will not satiate your hunger
Half the way will get you no where
Half an idea will bear you no results
Your other half is not the one you love
It is you in another time yet in the same space
It is you when you are not
Half a life is a life you didn't live,
A word you have not said
A smile you postponed
A love you have not had
A friendship you did not know
To reach and not arriv
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Kahlil Gibran
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UserQuote91139301 Mon, 16 Sep 2024 20:57:37 -0700 <![CDATA[Shoak liked a quote by غادة السمان]]> /quotes/274308
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حبنا قوس قزح ، قال للشمس :

لا تشرقي كثيراً وإلا رحلت !

ولا تغيبي تماماً وإلا رحلت !

فأنا الحب الكبير،

يقتلني الوصال الكبير والفراق الكبير !
غادة السمان
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