"It was awful to be Negro and have no con"

“It was awful to be Negro and have no control over my life. It was brutal to be young and already trained to sit quietly and listen to charges brought against my color with no chance of defense. We should all be dead. I thought I should like to see us all dead, one on top of the other. A pyramid of flesh with the whitefolks on the bottom, as the broad base, then the Indians with their silly tomahawks and teepees and wigwams and treaties, the Negroes with their mops and recipes and cotton sacks and spirituals sticking out of their mouths. The Dutch children should all stumble in their wooden shoes and break their necks. The French should choke to death on the Louisiana Purchase (1803) while silkworms ate all the Chinese with their stupid pigtails. As a species, we were an abomination. All of us.”

- Maya Angelou,

Tag: death, i-know-why-the-caged-bird-sings, maya-angelou, racism, rage, youth,

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“On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage.”

- Aberjhani,

Tag: faith, forgiveness, intolerance, national-poetry-month, peace, popular-quotes, prayer, rage, spirituality, war, world-poetry-day,

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“Anger’s like a battery that leaks acid right out of meAnd it starts from the heart ’til it reaches my outer me”

- Criss Jami,

Tag: acid, anger, battery, bottled-up, brain, cognition, cold-hearted, control, health, heart, heartache, heartbreak, inner, lyrics, mental, mental-health, mental-illness, out-of-control, outer, pain, passive-aggressive, poem, poetry, psychology, rage, rhyme, rhythm, secrecy, self-control,

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“Take that rage, put it on a page, take the page to the stage, blow the roof off the place.”

- The Script

Tag: ireland, music, rage, singing, the-script, writing,

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“He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.”

- Brigham Young

Tag: inspirational, insult, rage,

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