They say if you don’t bend, you break. I say it’s better to break for a purpose than to bend for nothing.
Police reform starts with the acknowledgement of police bias.
Injustice on one life is injustice on all lives.
Wake up, start walking and stop not till the world is lifted.
There is so much anger buried deep inside me that if I dump them out onto the world, there won’t be any world left. So I chose to turn that anger into strength instead of weakness – I turned that anger into an instrument of creation rather than a weapon of destruction.
Either live or don’t, there is no playing safe.
Die for the people and even in death you shall live.
Intellectually just saying “all lives matter”, you may feel very good about yourself, you may feel, “I am so profound, I go beyond what people are able to see”, but actually you do not see anything, you don’t see the basic issues that people face, you don’t see the ground-level problems that people face, you don’t see the regular hate that people face, in their everyday walk of life, you are just a closet philosopher who loves to feel good in glorifying the indifference of the society.
If all you do is care for your own elevation, then at the end of the day, you’ll find yourself six feet under.
Enough with climbing the greasy pole of validation! Grab hold of your backbone, toughen up your conviction.
Foster kinship over skinship.
Each breath you take holds the potential for a thousand miracles.
Someone has to stand up to lift the world up.
We are the brain.
If your own cultural identity is more important to you than unification of the world, then the world will remain segregated for the rest of time, but if you can truly, actually, genuinely aim towards the unification of the world even at the cost of your own identity, then not only we’ll create a world of peace and assimilation, but also, in that world there will be place for all identities, with none of them being superior or inferior to any of them.
Revolution starts with inconvenient accountability.
A civilian has no more rights to bear arms, than the state has to bear nuclear weapons.
Love is boundless, love is limitless, love is conditionless. People have made a mess of this world, because they place barriers around love – because they have raised walls and imprisoned the most universal lifegiving force of the world behind those walls.
Joy is born in service, misery is born in selfishness.
Society teaches you to find joy in the benefit of the self, as a result everyone grows up to be miserable, for the more you seek joy for yourself the more joy runs away from you, but the moment you forget the self and walk down the path of service to benefit others, joy comes running after you.