There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else. That is the misery of being poor.
— Oscar Wilde
Black Panther Party newspaper, 1971. Design and illustration by Emory Douglas.
The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is, it’s to imagine what is possible.
— Bell Hooks
Angela Davis on the cover of Life Magazine, September 11, 1970.
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.
— Rumi
Anarchist & poet Carlo Giuliani, laying lifeless after being shot point-blank in the face & then ran over by police at the 2001 Anti-G8 protests in Genoa.
It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for a human being. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we are awake.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Angel’s Game
The People’s Free Food Program of the Black Panther Party.
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
— Joseph Chilton Pearce
Brown Berets.
Police repression only kills a revolutionary movement if it is already dead in it’s most essential component, the attack against power.
— Alfredo M. Bonanno
Smith, Sane, & Ket; XTC, RIS.
If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
— Audre Lorde
Albert Einstein.
The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.
— Oscar Wilde
