Wanna Fly...

Faith Ringgold – The Flag is Burning

You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
~ Malcolm X

A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope.
~ Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle

Life ... is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
~ William Shakespeare, Macbeth

When things go wrong, don't go with them.
~ Elvis Presley

I am an invisible man...I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids—and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.
~ Ralph Ellison

One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
 ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up 

Kayla Mahaffey – Deaf Ears

The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it's no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won't come.
~ J R R Tolkien, The Return of the King

A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future.
~ Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

The master says it’s a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it’s a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I wonder if there’s anyone in the world who would like us to live.
~ Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes

It is the duty of the younger Negro artist...to change through the force of his art that old whispering ‘I want to be white,’ hidden in the aspirations of his people, to ‘Why should I be white? I am a Negro—and beautiful!’”

Jean-Michel Basquiat

~ Langston Hughes, The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain, The Nation

You grew up, became a man, had to adjust to taking less than you hoped for; you discovered the dream-machine had a big OUT OF ORDER sign on it.
~ Stephen King, Dreamcatcher

We are not fighting for integration, nor are we fighting for separation. We are fighting for recognition as human beings...In fact, we are actually fighting for rights that are even greater than civil rights and that is human rights.
~ Malcolm X

Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
~ Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
~ James Baldwin, No Name in the Street

Arcmanoro Niles