375 Quotes by Walter Benjamin

Those who do not learn how to decipher photographs will be the illiterate of the future.

A revolutionary woman can't have no reactionary man. If he's not about liberation, if he's not about struggle, if he ain't about building a strong Black family, if he ain't about building a strong Black nation, then he ain't about nothing.

The US government's most acute fear is that other countries are going to follow the Cuban example. They want everybody to know that if you follow this example we will attack you in every way that we can.

No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free.

The nourishing fruit of the historically understood contains time as a precious but tasteless seed.

If we are not committed to saving this earth we will be buying designer air filters and gas masks with little Nike swishes on them.

People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.

Every image of the past that is not recognised by the present as one of its own threatens to disappear irretrievably.

This planet is a wonderful place, but a vulnerable place.