“I ain’t left nothing in Africa,” that’s what you say. Why, you left your mind in Africa.
– Malcolm X
Category: Timeless Teachings
Timeless Teachings: Gil Scott-Heron | Comment #1
“America was a bastard
The illegitimate daughter of the mother country
Whose legs were then spread around the world
And a rapist known as freedom, free-DOOM”
– Gil Scott-Heron
Timeless Teachings: Martin Luther King Jr. | Letter from Birmingham Jail
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial “outside agitator” idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider.
Timeless Teachings: Malcolm X Pt. III | Extremism Vs. Moderation
Oxford University Student Union in the United Kingdom – December 3, 1964
Timeless Teachings: Malcolm X Pt. II | The Ballot or the Bullet
“The government itself has failed us. And the white liberals who have been posing as our friends have failed us. And once we see that all of these other sources to which we’ve turned have failed, we stop turning to them and turn to ourselves. We need a self-help program, a do-it-yourself philosophy, a do-it-right-now philosophy, a it’s-already-too-late philosophy.”
Timeless Teachings: James Baldwin Pt. II | Pin Drop Speech
“It comes as a great shock to discover that the country which is your birthplace and to which you owe your life and your identity, has not, in its whole system of reality, evolved any place for you.” – James Baldwin
The Ghetto Activist 