Nijla means: "big, beautiful eyes."

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"But after awhile I began to understand that oppressed people —just by being oppressed — suffer serious wounds. You might go into a store, and somebody might follow you around the store, and you would have a choice of how to react: you could confront them and say “Why are you following me around the store?” or you could say to yourself: “Well, I came here to buy some socks, so let me just concentrate on buying the socks.” But you still feel the pain. The obvious racism before had affected me, the prisons, torture…my whole life had created wounds, scars in me that in Cuba I was able to find a space to begin to heal. To begin to think, “Yeah, this happened, and I can look at it and see it for what it was but not be there, not be destroyed by it, not be turned into something bitter and evil by it. And not be like my enemies. Because I think that the greatest betrayal that a revolutionary can participate in is to become like the people you are struggling against. To become like your persecutors. I think that is a betrayal and a sin."

Assata Shakur (via thechanelmuse)

italy is a place like that for me, which is why i have to love, in order to not be like them. 

(via dreamhard)

(Source: fantompowa.net, via dreamhard)


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