One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.
“One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.”
— H. Rap Brown · Chair
The World Motivation
One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.
“One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.”
— H. Rap Brown · Chair
One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.
But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.
The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
There is no such thing as a black middle class.
Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
When you have girlfriends, and you get into it, and you share your flaws, and you're like, 'Oh my God. I almost had my period all over that chair,' or whatever. That's how we connect, right?
We've got to protect the nursery schools. I'm chair of governors in a nursery school in my area. If we lost the provision, I'd be worried about the socialising skills of children.
As you get older, it's very easy to sit back and think, 'I'm nearly 60 now, I'll stay comfy in my chair.'
The kid who throws his spaghetti from the high chair onto his father's face, he's pushing back. He's sticking it to the man as he sees it. I like that. So that is punk.
For me reading a book is what I like doing, curled up in a corner in a comfortable chair.