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Some Epigrammatic Words of Wisdom which recurrently reverberate in my head, & thus have become:

My Ideological Skeleton

Salvation is an act of cognitive apprehension
so we do matter!
-Terence Mckenna

The philosophers have only interpreted the world.
The point, however, is to change it.
-Karl Marx

You must have a plan.
If you don’t have a plan, you’ll become a part of somebody else’s plan..
-Terence Mckenna

A new Age is upon us,
but the past refuses to rest in its shallow grave!
-Immortal Technique

Education is not something we should do to people,
but something we do for people, with people.
-Sir Ken Robinson

Art is the physical trail left behind from the Artist’s Evolution.

You think your taxes go to pave cracks in the road?
No. They go to fund government Black Operations.
-Danegurous

Give me control of a nation’s money supply,
& I care not who makes its laws.
-Mayer Rothchild

..and everybody feels it like an open sore,
they don’t represent us anymore.
-Woody Harrelson

Modern man is bereft of the rites & rituals necessary….

These ideas are nightmares to white parents
whose worst fear is a child with dyed hair & who likes earrings,
& whatever they say has no bearing..
-Eminem

Sustainability & Abundance are the absolute enemies of Profit.
-Peter Joseph

Hope is a gangster, kid,
with tattoos & teary eyes..
-bleubird

As always, the smiling liar used a lot of words
to say absolutely nothing at all.
-Lawrence O’Donnel

There comes a point when silence is betrayal.
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

So now I’m burning Gap sweaters in Common’s name,
because everything he said meant nothing when he put on them chains..
-Prolyphic

Hollywood drive-by! Mothafuckin’ murder fest!
I’ll light the spliff with the flag while I’m burnin’ it!
-Immortal Technique

Because the Education system just ain’t legit in preparin’ us,
so percentages of niggas drop out,
& now they’re scared of us..

By the time people leave school,
they’re so bent to thought patterns & attitudes
that most never deviate for the rest of their lives.
-John Taylor Gatto

Arguing with someone who has renounced the use of Reason
is like administering medicine to the dead.
-Thomas Paine

Civilization is 6 billion people trying to get ahead
by stepping on each others’ shoulders & knocking each other’s teeth in;
it’s not a pretty picture.
-Terence Mckenna

Little kids are becoming Generals because a year ago
they saw their parents getting slaughtered by devils..
-Cyrus Malachai

If they tell you to believe it, ask ’em whether it’s True!
If they tell you to achieve, ask whether it’s for them or for you!
-Saul Williams

If you don’t know what you’re doing,
it’ll be the hardest thing you’ve ever done.

A billion people sitting watching their TVs
in the room they call “Living”
& since there’s no Loving room, I sit on the grass..
-Woody Harrelson

And we laugh at anything less fortunate & different
neglected sense of humor when we’re in the same position..

We have learned to fly the air like birds;
we have learned to swim the sea like fish:
but we have not learned to walk the Earth as Brothers & Sisters.
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Cuz we’ve been acting like some crabs in this ugly bucket..
-Zack de la Rouda

Fuck your fucking attitude!!
How can you be so fucking rude?!?
-Big D & the Kids Table

Don’t dabble in the Arts, kids!
It’s a dirty, broke, & lonely business..
-bleubird

Kids! If you really want to piss off your parents,
buy real estate in an Imaginary place..
-Busdriver

If you’re afraid of failing,
then you’ll never come up with anything truly original.

If you think Education is expensive, try ignorance!

Your anger gives you great power,
but if you let it, it will destroy you.

If you can write down what you do for a living,
we’re going to get rid of that job.
That’s just going to happen.
-Seth Godin

Mistakes are only a problem when you don’t learn from them.

The only difference between a loser & a winner
is a winner plays until he wins.

Teach a man a fact & he’ll think for a day
teach a man to reason & he’ll think for a lifetime.

Just follow your Dream!
and if it’s too big for one person, then find a team!

We gon’ shine, & they gon’ hate,
but they hated Jesus baby, we won’t break!
-Lil Wayne

Because even when the world is fallin’ on top of me,
pessimism is an emotion not a philosophy.
-Immortal Technique

All possibilities are open
only to those who are open to all possibilities.

Don’t compare your beginning to someone else’s middle.

If you’re the smartest person in the room,
find smarter people or find a different room.

All of our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.
-Walt Disney

You just gotta find that inner strength
to not give up, & not be a quitter,
no matter how bad you want to just fall flat on your face..
-Eminem

Our greatest fear is not that we are powerless,
but that we are powerful beyond all measure.

It’s really important that we remember what’s really important.
-Peter Joseph

The problem is you won’t admit you’re God
that’s False Humility!
-Alan Watts

Young man, the power’s in your hands
Slam your fist on the table & make your demands!
-Matisyahu

We must study the past, so as to better order the present
to create a more beneficial future.

There are no Political solutions, only Technological ones;
the rest is Propaganda.

We need a Conscious Revolution,
no more nonsense resolutions
this is a dissolution,
take heed to the Solution!
-Kalki

Micro, macro, massive, minute!
Y’all spit false testaments
I am the Truth!
-Morbski

Okay, you’re a goon
but whats a goon to a Goblin?!
-Lil Wayne

What’s a Devil to an Elohim?
A checker in a game of chess..
-Poetic Death

We’ve got to rid our system of these Foolish policies..
-Ali Dahesh

It is only by the painstaking elimination of all that is untrue
that the Truth is revealed.

They may they may find it difficult,
those who have taken authority as the Truth
rather than Truth as the authority.

I don’t care where this ranks, on or below the surface
it’s keeping me from going crazy, so that makes it worth it.
-Jack Wilson

Oh, you wanna know where I stand?
Well it’s over your head, & on your face..
-sole

I’m birthing new synapses in your brain right now as you’re listening..
-Kalki

The real voyage of discovery is not to explore new territory,
but to look with new eyes.

Times are bad;
children no longer obey their parents,
& everyone is writing a book.
-Cicero

And thanks to the miracle of Search,
whenever one person solves a problem,
it’s solved for everyone else in the world.
-Clay Shirky

There is perhaps no statement so false as
“This is my idea.”
-Peter Joseph

The true success of a work of Art
is that it be copied abundantly, remixed vigorously, & beheld widely..

This one’s for all the Artists,
who know their work is just a drop in the ocean
but do it anyway, hopin’..
-P.O.S.

For the first time,
young people are an authority
& have expertise about something really important..
-Don Tapscott

You can kill the protester,
but you can’t kill the protest!
-Anti-Flag

All Revolutions are impossible, ridiculous
until they happen,
& then they’re historical necessities.

Calling it a “Smart Phone” is about as helpful
as calling the automobile a “Horseless Carriage”.

Sometimes, for decades, nothing happens
and then, in a week, decades happen.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal
with the intention to throw it at someone.

When black hate white, & white hate black
it’s right back to the same fight..
-DMX

It’s the same people that control the school system
that control the prison system
& the whole social system
ever since slavery!
-stic.man [dead prez]

Smooth-talkers always tend to lead the lamb to the slaughter..
-No Bird Sing

And when we think we fight the power we feed it
with bail bonds & court fees
just the price of doin’ business!
-sole

Media manipulation is much more effective in the US than Nazi Germany,
because we have the illusion of Truth….

Because gun control ain’t good for nothin’
except ending the conversation about what’s wrong with this so-called nation..
-sole

From Triumph to Tragedy, Revolt to Revolution
we we swing the swords of Destiny….
-Sinister Stricken

If you want to make God laugh,
tell him your plans
that’s what she said..
-bleubird

This is a big “F you!” to any label
that’s trynna make dough off any group.
-Chill Bump

But first you’ve got to get mad
you’ve got to stand up & say,
“I’m a Human Being, god damn it! My life has value!”
-“The Network” [1976]

Cuz you could have the world in the palm of your hand,
but it don’t mean a thing ’til you change it!
-Mac Miller

What do you do exactly?
Not “exactly” like you don’t do anything,
but what exactly do you do?
-P.O.S.

You seem to always be deep in thought.
Now tell me, what are you thinking about right now?
-Willy Wonka

At least I’m smart enough to know that I don’t know;
the question is are we both so?
-Eminem

Ask me why I give a fuck!
& I’ll ask you why you don’t.
-sole

It is only by going to far that one may find out how far one may truly go.
-Kurt Vonnegut

Anticon
more than an egomaniacal sarcastic label for a movement
this is Hip Hop music for the advancement of mankind!
-sole

I think I’m done being angry!
I want to write something pretty!
-Zack de la Rouda

I’m not sick
I’m gifted! I’m pregnant with beauty & I havin’ no abortion!
-Kristoff Krane

I just spit the scriptures
and leave it up to you to see the pictures..

Whenever you sit down to write, you open a vein.

So I’ll pass it over to Life Scientist,
so he can tear at your Paradigms with a pair of pliers..
-Son of Saturn

You’re leery of conspiracy theory, but hear me
from a business perspective, it just makes sense
clearly!
-Immortal Technique

Policemen are soldiers who act alone
soldiers are policemen who act in unison.

They had me caught, thinkin’ it’s all Illuminati plot
I let it humble me, but crumble me? Nah, probably not!
-Qwel

But even if we did point the criminals out,
I’m not convinced that we would convict ’em!
-Zack de la Rouda

they say it’s puppy love
we say it’s fuullll grownn!
-Andre 3000

it may not be much light,
but it sure beats the darkness

and for those of you who don’t know, apocalypse means lift the veil
-Son of Saturn

it’s not the end of the world, it’s the end of the world as we know it
hollywood & youtube don’t know shit..
-Son of Saturn

if you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed
if you do read the newspaper, you’re misinformed
-Mark Twain

it’s hard not to be condescending when you’re explaining something to an idiot
-Bill Maher

For ignorance without malice
may make a man to both believe lies & to tell them,
& sometimes even to invent them…
-Thomas Hobbes

I’m not a modern-day prophet,
I’m just a student of war;
the writing is on the wall!
-sole

So when you listen to my shit play it back,
cuz i bet the first time you heard it you didn’t really listen;
so when you listen to my shit play it back,
cuz i’m always goin over heads, yours isn’t any different
-Kryptic

cuz being detained without charge is the quintessence of englishness
-Dizraeli

ohh how the great have fallen! (what have i done to myself?
it’s been wayy too long!)
-Sage Francis

honesty rhymes with lead in these times of dread
-Kalki

we are gods of a common prana
apart we are falling down
-Son of Saturn

so when they ask me where i went to college
the library, the internet!
-sole

this one’s for all those out there doin what they love with they life
and to all of those on the outside, wonderin what it’s like
-sole

i’m gonna break into your brain & cause mayhem
like a mayan prophecy of end times

i’m not a writer
i just drink a lot about it..

i may live badly
but at least i don’t have to work to do it
-[Josh Martinez sample]

we’re all just dots & lines in the cosmic equation
-Kalki

between me & the world,
the poetry flows both ways
-Kalki

i’m holdin the terrorist global government
in the palm of my hands & droppin em, fam
-Son of Saturn

here’s to our lives being meaningless, & how beautiful it is
because freedom doesn’t have a purpose!
-Johnny Hobo

he talked about revolution for a half an hour without using any verbs
-Johnny Hobo

and i don’t drink any less
i’ve just learned how to hydrate
-Early Adopted

but universal truth ain’t measured in mass appeal

today, i am no longer accepting the things i cannot change,
i am changing the things i cannot accept

we’re at a point where, no one knows what to do
rappers on the radio just talk about how good they are,
politicians in the capitols just talk about how good they are..
-Zack de la Rouda

what is it, a seditive? a laxitive?
your rituals make me snore & shit myself..
-[Son of Saturn sample]

if you consider yourself a forward-thinking person,
you will have learned to view the present from the perspective of the future..

..cuz everything you hold dear you could lose in a year
and then you”ll be out here with the rest of us…

as monkeys we’re always up for a good fight
but as humans, we always put it off until the very last moment
well, this is it; this is the very last moment..
-Terence Mckenna

the only kind of freedom that has ever existed is attitudinal
-Michael Tsarion

to the worm in the corpse,
the corpse is the cosmos
-Insane Clown Posse

i used to think suicide was a suburban myth
i couldn’t see my own hands being the ones i’m murdered with
but now that i’ve travelled the world a bit, i understand now
if i lose my nerve, i’ll get the girl to do it
-Sage Francis

ain’t nobody said this life was easy
everything a test..

but no matter how numb i make myself,
i can’t escape myself
-Zack de la Rouda

i’m a white radical, neva on sabbatical
-sole

there is only one awakening..
there is not a mahamudra awakening, a zen awakening, a..
no no, there is only reality.
& when you awake to it, you know.
you are certain, but that certainty is also uncertainty…
-[Son of Saturn sample]

Inside every cynic is a disappointed idealist.

We’re supposed to challenge the government!
That’s the role of the media!
-Cenk Uygur

I done lost the love of my life,
trynna chase a fuckin vision..
-Poetic Death

Today the drop-outs are smarter than the PhD’s,
as they made off with everyone’s cars, without the keys!
-Johnny Hobo

the bigger the society, the bigger the gods
if the holy wars don’t kill us first, let’s hope religion evolves
-Baba Brinkman

we’ve gotta use what we’ve got to get what we want
-sole

This is heart-core,
based on elements at the earth’s core
tell me, what is it that we do Art for?
-Saul Williams

Don’t sweat the small stuff,
& it’s all small stuff.

The handle of the axe comes from the forest itself!
-Matisyahu

It’s better to be somebody for one day,
than to be a nobody for your entire life.

I curse the world one second,
demand it buy me a sandwich in the next;
or else I’m bummin the cigarrettes,
that will help me to forget how hungry I am..
-Johnny Hobo [‘Election Song’]

God isn’t dead yet,
but I’ll get that bastard someday!
-Johnny Hobo

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