Temple Neko

“As revolutionaries, we don't have the right to say we are tired of explaining. We must never stop explaining. We know that when the people understand, they cannot help but follow us.”
― Thomas Sankara

“One of those awfully simple
and beautiful days
with you
that makes me afraid of dying,
makes me afraid of not being.
When the soft 6 o’clock sun
is slowly sinking behind the harbour,
and your smile, effortless and tidy,
makes time take flight.
You save me from death
but also from lifeless living.
With you,
nothing's wasted on me.
The music of the breeze, the colours
of children’s footsteps, the dancing
trees—I drink them all
and, what’s more, you drink these
with me.
One of those insignificant days
when we do nothing and achieve
nothing, and yet, chasing the ducks
and sharing my last stick of gum
with you is everything.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“It’s not so much that we are losing our identities, but rather that we are no longer embracing false identities. If we hold on to what once defined us, we will miss out on the authentic identity we are being called to.”
― Dale Hanson Bourke, Second Calling: Finding Passion & Purpose for the Rest of Your Life

“We have no need of a feminized apparatus to bureaucratically manage women's lives or to issue sporadic statements about women's lives by smooth-talking functionaries. What we need are women who will fight because they know that without a fight the old order will not be destroyed and no new order will be built. We are not looking to organize what exists but to definitively destroy and replace it.”
― Thomas Sankara, Women's Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle