Read...the truth is out there
"Anything i do today, i regard as urgent. No man is given but so much time to accomplish whatever is his life's work. My life in particular never has stayed fixed in one position for very long. You have seen how throughout my life, i have often known unexpected drastic change. I am only facing the facts when i know that any moment of any day, or any night, could bring me death.....To come right down to it, if i take the kind of things in which i believe, then add to that the kind of temperament that i have, plus the one hudnred percent dedication i have to whatever i believe in, these are ingredients which make it just about implossible for me to die of old age."
-Malcolm X
"Its amazing to a man what a book can do, and how certain books look for you." -Common
"I have often reflected up on the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right thre in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive. I cerainly wasn't seeking any degree, the way a college confers a status symbol upon its students. My homemade education gave me, with every additional book that I read, a little bit more sensititivy to the deafness, dumbness, and blindness that was affliciting the black race in America. Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was 'What's your alma mater?' I told him, 'Books.'"-Malcolm X, from the Autobiography of Malcolm X
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best movies i have seen recently have been "Something the Lord Made", a movie where mos def plays vivien thomas, a black man who contributed in finding the field of heart sergery before taking a single class in college, "The Motorcycle Diaries" based on a great book by Che, "In the Time of Butterflies" about three sisters who were revolutionaries in Trujillo's Dominican Republic, and on and on
an addiction im slowely overcoming, but i cant stay away from "real time with bill maer", the daily show, and the colbert report. i mean, who else is gunna call bullshit when bullshit is fed to us by the guys in the suits.
autobiography of malcolm x, and "Che Guevera: A Revolutionary Life" by john lee anderson are the two books that changed my life. "live from death row" by mumia abu jamal, and i could go on forever.