"Congratulations. You are still alive. Most people are so ungrateful to be alive. But not you. Not anymore."
On this day in 2004: James Wan and Leigh Whannel's SAW was released.
tomorrow when the farm boys find this freak of nature, they will wrap his body in newspaper and carry him to the museum. but tonight he is alive and in the north field with his mother. [...] and as he stares into the sky, there are twice as many stars as usual
RIP, Assata Shakur. She passed away yesterday in Havana, Cuba. She died free!
The U.S. government, after decades of pursuit, never got the satisfaction of putting her in a cage. They wanted her bound, broken, and paraded as an example, but instead, she slipped their grip and lived out her life in exile, surrounded by people who honored her struggle and her survival.
For racist white America, she was a fugitive. For us, she was a freedom fighter who refused to bow.
Assata leaves this world with her dignity intact, her story unbent, and her defiance ETERNAL. She was never theirs to claim. She belonged to history, to the people, and to the ongoing fight for liberation. And now, she belongs to the ancestors.
Rest in Power, love. 🖤