The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.

Assata Shakur: An Autobiography (via theuncolonizedmind)

So many of y’all need this quote driven into your frontal lobe.

A LOT.

(via thegoddamazon)