375 Quotes by Walter Benjamin

Every person that steps up and commits to social change helps solidify the black movement cause. It is not easy for those who fill in the leader role.

Only a fool lets somebody else tell him who his enemy is....never let your enemies choose your enemies for you.

A woman’s place is in the struggle.

Allegories are, in the realm of thought, what ruins are in the realm of things.

Hip Hop can be a very powerful weapon to help expand young people's political and social consciousness. But just as with any weapon, if you don't know how to use it, if you don't know where to point it, or what you're using it for, you can end up shooting yourself in the foot or killing your sisters or brothers.

A bearer of news of death appears to himself as very important. His feeling - even against all reason - makes him a messenger from the realm of the dead.

The US has attacked countries like Grenada, Panama, Libya... the list of victims of US terrorism is almost infinite. And the US government's participation in torture, whether in El Salvador, Guatemala, Chile... is well-documented and widely known.

Ownership is the most intimate relationship that one can have to objects. Not that they come alive in him; it is he who lives in them.

The real reason Cuba poses a threat has nothing to do with my being here or anyone else being here. It's because Cuba is an example of a country that is actively fighting against imperialist domination and insists on its own right to self-determination and sovereignty.