Nate+Wall2

=The Struggle of Race in America= "I Couldn't Join them in their adoration because i hated Shirley. Not Because she was cute, but because she danced with Bojangles, who was //my// friend, //my// uncle, //my// daddy, and who ought to have been soft-shoeing and chuckling with me. instead he was enjoying, sharing, giving a lovely dance thing with one of those little white girls" (-Bluest eye pg. 19)

=The Opposition= it is like writing history with lightning. And my only regret is that it is all so terribly true." -Former President Woodrow Wilson commenting on __Birth of a Nation__

=Fighting Back=



"If you know in this hotel room they have food every day and I knock on the door. Every day they open tha door to let me see tha party, let me see that they throwin' salami, throwin' food around telling me there's no food. Every day. I'm standing outside tryin to sing my way in- "We are weak, please let us in. We're weak, please let us in." After about a week tha song is gonna change to, "We're hungry, we need some food." After two, three weeks it's like "Give me some of tha food! I'm breakin down tha door." After a year it's like, "I'm pickin' the lock, comin' through the door blastin." It's like, "I'm hungry." You reached your level, you don't want any more. We asked ten years ago, we were askin' with the Panthers, we were askin' in the Civil Rights Movement. Now those who were askin' are all dead or in jail, what are we gonna do? And we shouldn't be angry!?" -Tupac Shakur Nate reflection 2 Nate Wall 1 Nate Wall3