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Get up, stand up,
Stand up for your right.
Get up, stand up,
Don't give up the fight.

Bob Marley

Get up, Stand up

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Marley, Bob and Peter Tosh. "Get Up, Stand Up." Performed by Bob Marley and the Wailers. Burnin'. Tuff Gong/Island Records, 1973.

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Get up, stand up
Stand up for your rights
Get up, stand up
Don't give up the fight.

Bob Marley

Get up, Stand up

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Marley, Bob and Peter Tosh. "Get Up, Stand Up." Performed by Bob Marley and the Wailers. Burnin'. Tuff Gong/Island Records, 1973.

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Don't gain the world and lose your soul,
Wisdom is better than silver and gold.

Bob Marley

Zion Train

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Marley, Bob. "Zion Train." Performed by Bob Marley and the Wailers. Uprising. Tuff Gong/Island Records, 1980.

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It is Toussaint's supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its foundations among his people, he never had the illusion that it conferred any moral superiority. He knew French, British, and Spanish imperialists for the insatiable gangsters that they were, that there is no oath too sacred for them to break, no crime, deception, treachery, cruelty, destruction of human life and property which they would not commit against those who could not defend themselves.

C.L.R. James

The Black Jacobins

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James, C.L.R. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution. Secker & Warburg, 1938, ch. 12.

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One good thing about music, when it hits you feel no pain.

Bob Marley

Trenchtown Rock

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Marley, Bob. Trenchtown Rock. Performed by Bob Marley and the Wailers. Tuff Gong, 1971.

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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

Fidel Castro

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Castro, Fidel. Discurso Pronunciado por El Comandante Fidel Castro Ruz, Primer Ministro De Gobierno Revolucionario [Speech on the Second Anniversary of the Triumph of the Revolution]. 2 Jan. 1961, Plaza de la Revolución, Havana, Cuba.

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Leave this Europe where they are never done talking of Man, yet murder men everywhere they find them.

Frantz Fanon

The Wretched of the Earth

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Fanon, Frantz. Les Damnes de la Terre [The Wretched of the Earth]. Francois Maspero, 1961, conclusion.

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The half-life of love is forever.

Junot Diaz

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This is How You Lose Her

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Diaz, Junot. "The Cheater's Guide to Love." This Is How You Lose Her. Riverhead Books, 2012.

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To see your enemy and know him is part of the complete education of man.

Marcus Garvey

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Garvey, Marcus. Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey. Vol. 1, The Universal Publishing House, 1923, ch. 2.

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The world is what it is.

V.S. Naipaul

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Naipaul, V. S. A Bend in the River. Alfred A Knopf, 1979, pt. 1.

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When I search for man in the technique and the style of Europe, I see only a succession of negations of man, and an avalanche of murders.

Frantz Fanon

The Wretched of the Earth

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Fanon, Frantz. Les Damnes de la Terre [The Wretched of the Earth]. Francois Maspero, 1961, conclusion.

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When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity.

C.L.R. James

The Black Jacobins

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James, C.L.R. The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution. Secker & Warburg, 1938, ch. 5.

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Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing!

Camille Pissarro

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Pissarro, Camille. Letter to his son Lucien. 26 July 1893.

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Pissarro, Camille. Quoted in Letters of the Great Artists: From Blake to Pollock, edited by Richard Friedenthal. Random House, 1963.

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I am black: I am the incarnation of a complete fusion with the world, an intuitive understanding of the earth, an abandonment of my ego in the heart of the cosmos.

Frantz Fanon

Black Skin, White Masks

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Fanon, Frantz. Peau noire, masques blancs [Black Skin, White Masks]. Editions du Seuil, 1952, ch. 2.

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The adoption of the concept of Black Power is one of the most legitimate and healthy developments in American politics and race relations in our time.... It is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community. It is a call for black people to begin to define their own goals, to lead their own organizations and to support those organizations. It is a call to reject the racist institutions and values of this society.

Stokely Carmichael

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Black Power: The Politics of Liberation

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Carmichael, Stokely and Charles Vernon Hamilton. Black Power: The Politics of Liberation. Random House, 1967.

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I often want to cry. That is the only advantage women have over men-at least they can cry.

Jean Rhys

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Rhys, Jean. Good Morning, Midnight. Constable Press, 1939.

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Rhys, Jean. Good Morning, Midnight. W. W. Norton & Company, 2020.

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Life is short. Work is for those who will never be able to understand life. Idleness cannot degrade a man. To the discriminating eye it differs from laziness.

René Maran

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Maran, Rene. Batouala. Albin Michel, 1921, ch. 1.

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Maran, Rene. Batouala, translated by Adele Szold Seltzer. Heinemann, 1988, ch. 1.

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We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky-and it would be so much less fun if we were... Some must cry so that others may be able to laugh the more heartily.

Jean Rhys

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Rhys, Jean. Good Morning, Midnight. Constable Press, 1939.

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Rhys, Jean. Good Morning, Midnight. W. W. Norton & Company, 2020.

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One thing that I really like about teaching is that you have to work very hard not to lose the respect of your students.

Tania Bruguera

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Bruguera, Tania. Interviewed by Erik Wenzel. Artslant, May 2013, www.artslant.com/global/artists/rackroom/22895-tania-bruguera.

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The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still. Like when they say "As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end."