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Keith Haring, Grace Jones, Fela Kuti and Basquiat

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Jean-Michel Basquiat

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Jewish amulet from Afghanistan, ca. 1920

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“We must not cultivate the spirit of the exceptional or look for the hero, another form of leader. We must elevate the people, expand their minds, equip them, differentiate them, and humanize them.”

— Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

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For a colonized people, the most essential value, because it is the most meaningful, is first and foremost the land: the land, which must provide bread and, naturally, dignity. But this dignity has nothing to do with "human" dignity. The colonized subject has never heard of such an ideal. All he has ever seen on his land is that he can be arrested, beaten, and starved with impunity; and no sermonizer on morals, no priest has ever stepped in to bear the blows in his place or share his bread. For the colonized, to be a moralist quite plainly means silencing the arrogance of the colonist, breaking his spiral of violence, in a word ejecting him outright from the picture.

Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of The Earth

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“To educate the masses politically does not mean, cannot mean, making a political speech. What it means is to try, relentlessly and passionately, to teach the masses that everything depends on them; that if we stagnate it is their responsibility, and that if we go forward it is due to them too, that there is no such thing as a demiurge, that there is no famous man who will take the responsibility for everything, but that the demiurge is the people themselves and the magic hands are finally only the hands of the people.”

— Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth

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Shamsia Hassani, Afghanistan’s first female street artist, has been publishing her heartbreaking response to the Taliban coming into power.

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Jean-Michel Basquiat, Brook Bartlett and Bruno Bischofberger at the Cresta Clubhouse in St. Moritz on January 30, 1983.

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King Pleasure, 1987, Jean-Michel Basquiat

Medium: acrylic,canvas

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[twixnmix]

Jean-Michel Basquiat photographed by Tseng Kwong Chi in his Great Jones Street studio, 1987.

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Roy Lichtenstein. Landscape, 1967. MoMA

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Students study with their teacher in a Madrassah (religious school) in Samarkand (present-day Uzbekistan in Central Asia, then part of the Russian Empire).

Throughout history, Islamic madrassahs produced some of the finest minds in human history, ranging from theologians, philosophers, and mathematicians to jurists, poets and scholars.

(Photo from 1910)

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Verse from the Quran – 2:117

Source: a-fadingshadow, via IslamicArtDB