Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn.

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If he’s alive he has everything in his power! Whose fault is it he doesn’t understand that.

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We've never advocated violence; violence is inflicted upon us. But we do believe in self-defense for ourselves and for black people. - Huey Newton

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I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.- Huey Newton

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Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light. —Steven Kloves

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I do not expect the white media to create positive black male images. - Huey Newton

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When you're happy, you enjoy the music but when you're sad, you understand the lyrics. ― Frank Ocean

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Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment. - Huey Newton

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Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries. ― Anne Herbert

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The poem, the song, the picture, is only water drawn from the well of the people, and it should be given back to them in a cup of beauty so that they may drink - and in drinking understand themselves.

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