375 Quotes by Walter Benjamin

People come telling the truth. When I ask how thing are in the States, they don't give me the okeydoke. They say, "Honey, things are hard." It reminds me I have to keep struggling.

My life wasn't beautiful and creative before I became politically active. My life was totally changed when I began to struggle.

To the lover the loved one always appears as solitary.

I have advocated and I still advocate revolutionary change

At this time I'd like to say a few words especially to my sisters: SISTERS. BLACK PEOPLE WILL NEVER BE FREE UNLESS BLACK WOMEN PARTICIPATE IN EVERY ASPECT OF OUR STRUGGLE, ON EVERY LEVEL OF OUR STRUGGLE.

Literature tells very little to those who understand it.

Like all other Black revolutionaries, Amerika is trying to lynch me.

Art teaches us to see into things. Folk art and kitsch allow us to see outward from within things.

I worked, studied, mothered and continued to be an activist. I found that Cuba was much different from the US; its government was genuinely trying to erase racism.