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Expect nothing. Live frugally On surprise. become a stranger To need of pity Or, if compassion be freely
When they torture your mother plant a tree When they torture your father plant a tree When they torture your brother
Don’t be like those who ask for ev… praise, a blurb, a free ride in my… limousine. They ask for everything… anything in return. Be like those who can see that my…
Look into her eyes and know: She does not think
Knowing you might some day come and how unprepared I’ve always been like Mr. Sloppy in Charles Dickens’
My desire is always the same; wherever Life deposits me: I want to stick my toe & soon my whole body
When you thought me poor, my poverty was shaming. When blackness was unwelcome we found it best that I stay home.
Before I leave the stage I will sing the only song I was meant truly to sing. It is the song of I AM.
To change the world enough you must cease to be afraid of the poor. We experience your fear as the lea… humiliations; in the past
I will keep Broken things: The big clay Pot
I Sing of Mumia brilliant and strong and of the captivity that few black men escape
I said to Poetry:"I’m finished with you." Having to almost die before some wierd light comes creeping through
Let other leaders Retire To play golf & write Memoirs
When the people have won a victory whether small or large do you ever wonder
If I was President The first thing I would do is call Mumia Abu—Jamal. No, if I was president