" We must love and care for one another as a radical act of resistance. The struggle for liberation is not simply an intellectual pursuit; it is a physical, emotional, and spiritual battle…
Hope grows when we come together as a community,when we lean on each other in our shared struggle, and when we recognize that our collective joy is part of our resistance. In the face of oppression,love becomes a weapon, a weapon that transcends fear, that heals,that brings us together. - bell hooks
I want to be a force for real good. In other words. I know that there are bad forces, forces that bring suffering to others and misery to the world, but I want to be the opposite force. I want to be the force which is truly for good.
America is also the nameless foreigner, the homeless refugee, the hungry boy begging for a job and the black body dangling on a tree. America is the illiterate immigrant who is ashamed that the world of books and intellectual opportunities is closed to him…
We are all that nameless foreigner, that homeless refugee, that hungry boy, that illiterate immigrant and that lynched black body. All of us, from the first Adams to the last Filipino, native born or alien, educated or illiterate.
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—John Coltrane
We are America!
—Carlos Bulosan