In light of recent events, I want to start conversation on issues that matter. I want to use my platform on here to remind everyone that the issue of #blacklivesmatter is not one of politics but an issue of human rights. All lives cannot matter until BLACK LIVES MATTER.
For those of you who may not wish to ruin your aesthetic with issues of human rights here is a list of academic quotes from writers, poets and academics that voice some of my feelings on the matter as a POC.
“I don’t know how to stay tender with this much blood in my mouth.” -Emma Tranter
That being said, I cant stop thinking about when Toni Morrison said;
“If you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then you job is to empower somebody else.”
“In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate.”
Or when Langston Hughes said;
“I swear to the Lord, I still can’t see, why Democracy means, Everybody but me.”
“Good morning, Revolution you’re the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on.”
“I tire so of hearing people say, let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I’m dead. I cannot live on tomorrows bread.”
“I am so tired of waiting. Aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind? Let us take a knife and cut the world in two- and see what worms are eating at the rind.”
Or when James Baldwin said;
“To be black and conscious in America is to be in a constant rage.”
Or when W.E.B Du Bois said;
“To be a poor man is hard, to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.”
Or when Maya Angelou said;
“You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I’ll rise.”
“Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave me, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise, I rise, I rise.”
Or when Percy Bysshe Shelley said;
“What is Freedom?- ye can tell that which slavery is, too well- for its very name has grown to an echo of your own.”
During these times of revolution, as we seek justice in a world built upon corruption I remind you;
“The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.” -Dante Alighieri
“Come, my friends, ‘T is not too late to seek a newer world.” - Lord Alfred Tennyson
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