"If you want to be a flaming youth, you must have money to burn."

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"Racist oppression invades the lives of Black people on an infinite variety of levels. Blacks are imprisoned in a world where our labor and toil hardly allow us to eke out a decent existence, if we are…"

— Angela Davis

Education1944

#work

"But fie on these unanswered queries and fie on those who pose them. There are stories to be written, drinks to be drunk, women to be ravished, and … alas, money to be made. We shall ride the bouncing …"

— Hunter S. Thompson

Literature1937–2005

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"The cure for poverty has a name, in fact: it's called the empowerment of women. If you give women some control over the rate at which they reproduce, if you give them some say, take them off the anima…"

— Christopher Hitchens

Philosophy1949–2011

#hope