art by Basquiat
Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach
Thomas Sankara and his family
“Democracy is the people, with all their strength and potential. Ballot boxes and an electoral apparatus in and of themselves don’t signify the existence of democracy. Those who organise elections every so often and are concerned about the people only when an election is coming up don’t have a genuinely democratic system. But wherever people can say what they think at any time, there is genuine democracy—because the confidence of the people must be earned every day. Democracy can’t be conceived of without total power resting in the hands of the people—economic, military, political, social, and cultural power.” — Thomas Sankara
Magic Johnson
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Malcolm X
Love your self, love your home
Three Giants-
John Henrik Clarke, Dr. Ben, and Chancellor Williams
Building the future
“The revolution does not look for short cuts and yet requires that we all march together, united in thought and in deed. This is why the revolution must be a perpetual teacher, a perpetual question mark. And if the masses do not yet understand, it is our fault. We must take the time to explain and convince them so that we can act with them and in their interests. If the masses do not understand correctly, it is still our fault. We have to correct errors, be more precise, and adapt ourselves to the masses and not try to adapt the masses to our own desires and dreams. Revolutionaries are not afraid of their own mistakes. They have the political courage to admit them publicly, because doing so means committing oneself to correcting them and to doing better. We should prefer one step forward with the masses to ten steps forward without them.” — Thomas Sankara
