Patrick Simmons

activism, art, music. together not separate. http://twitter.com/PatrickSimmons1

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(The Anti Hero) My new folk/trap/pop side project.

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New Song featuring an interpolation of Ghost Town by Kanye West & Kid Cudi

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Anti Hero - El Rio 4/12/17

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Doing four new songs between 7:30 -8pm

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(via ANOHNI - Drone Bomb Me - YouTube)

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🔥🔥🔥

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I Feel It All - The Anti Hero

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"What one does realize is that when you try to stand up and look the world in the face like you had a right to be here, without knowing that this is the result of it, you have attacked the entire power structure of the Western world.” "We know, everybody knows, no matter whatever the professions of my unhappy country may be that we are not bombing people out of existence in the name of freedom. If it were freedom we were concerned about, then long, long ago we would have done something about Johannesburg, South Africa. If we were concerned with freedom, boys and girls would not, as I stand here, be perishing in the streets of Harlem. We are concerned with power, nothing more than that, and most unluckily for the Western World, it’s consolidated its power on the backs of people who are now willing to die rather than be used any longer. In short, the economic arrangement of the Western World proved to be too expensive for most of the world."

[itsbrysontiller]

I stopped explaining myself when I realized,

People only understand from their level of perception

[thefader]

11 BOOKS TO HELP YOU NAVIGATE LIFE AT THE DAWN OF TRUMP

FIND REFUGE AND TOOLS FOR REVOLUTION IN THESE WORDS.

[quotemadness]

Art is here to prove, and to help one bare, the fact that all safety is an illusion.

James Baldwin (via quotemadness)

[hueyfreemanonlyspeaksthetruth]

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" I am one of those. Melodramatic fools. Neurotic to the bone." #greenday #oakland (at Oracle Arena and Oakland Alameda County Coliseum)

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"I'm on my feet, I'm on the floor, I'm good to go. And all I need is just to hear a song I know..." #jimmyeatworld #apraisechorus (at Oracle Arena and Oakland Alameda County Coliseum)

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"Hands up Don’t shoot I can’t breathe BLACK LIVES MATTER No justice No Peace I know that we can overcome because I had a dream A dream we tore this racist broken system apart at the seams" #Oakland #ghostship #kimyadawson #blacklivesmatter #queerlivesmatter #translivesmatter (at Starline Social Club)

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Going full emo tonight.

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"Culture, real culture, is radical and transformative. Culture can express what lies deep within us and give words to our reality. Making us feel as well as see, culture allows us to empathize with those who are different or oppressed. Even as it reveals what is happening around us, it honors mystery. It saves us from ourselves. “The role of the artist, then, precisely, is to illuminate that darkness, we will not, in all our doing, lose sight of its purpose, which is, after all, to make the world a more human dwelling place.” -Wages Of Rebellion by Chris Hedges

Wages Of Rebellion by Chris Hedges

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The moral life, celebrated only in the afterglow of history and often not celebrated at all, is lonely, frightening, and hard. The crowd condemns you. The state brands you a traitor. You struggle with your own fears and doubts. The words you speak are often not understood. And you are never certain if your words and actions, in the end, will make any difference. The rebel knows the odds. To defy radical evil does not mean to be irrational. It is to have a sober clarity about the power of evil and one’s insignificance and yet to rebel anyway. To face radical evil is to accept self-sacrifice.

Wages Of Rebellion by Chris Hedges