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"And thats not socialist mythology, This is urban warfare, to the streets of your psychology."
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Immortal Technique"You cannot second guess yourself in these days and times. Theyre gonna throw whatever they can at you and you gotta be prepared for it. You gotta be prepared for anything."
Felipe Andres Coronel, better known by his stage name Immortal Technique, is a Peruvian-American rapper, songwriter, and activist. His lyrics largely feature commentary on issues such as politics, religion, institutional racism, and government conspiracies.
"And thats not socialist mythology, This is urban warfare, to the streets of your psychology."
"But you know what the fuck I think is just pathetic and gay? When niggaz speculate what the fuck Pac would say. You dont know shit about a dead mans perspective and talking shit will get your neckbone disconnected, disrespected. Niggaz dont show no love, why you trying to be hardcore? you fucking homo-thug. And dont be sensitive and angry at the shit that I wrote, cuz if you can take a fucking dick, you can take a joke."
"We dont get weapons contracts, nigga / We dont get cheap labor for our company, nigga / We ARE cheap labour, nigga / Turn off the news and read, nigga / read..."
"The first payback that i would accomplish: id draft children from the senate and congress"
"They call us terrorists after they ruined our countries."
"The bling-bling era was cute, but its about to be done. I leave you full eclipse (of clips) like the moon blocking the sun."
"As long as you keep getting born, it’s okay to die sometimes."
"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that theres free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate."
"History is a strange experience. The world is quite small now; but history is large and deep. Sometimes you can go much farther by sitting in your own home and reading a book of history, than by getting onto a ship or an airplane and traveling a thousand miles. When you go to Mexico City through space, you find it a sort of cross between modern Madrid and modern Chicago, with additions of its own; but if you go to Mexico City through history, back only 500 years, you will find it as distant as though it were on another planet: inhabited by cultivated barbarians, sensitive and cruel, highly organized and still in the Copper Age, a collection of startling, of unbelievable contrasts."
"As soon as a thought or word becomes a tool, one can dispense with actually ‘thinking’ it, that is, with going through the logical acts involved in verbal formulation of it. As has been pointed out, often and correctly, the advantage of mathematics—the model of all neo-positivistic thinking—lies in just this ‘intellectual economy.’ Complicated logical operations are carried out without actual performance of the intellectual acts upon which the mathematical and logical symbols are based. … Reason … becomes a fetish, a magic entity that is accepted rather than intellectually experienced."
"Our feminist culture at the present moment is completely dependent on capitalism. My grandmother was still scrubbing clothes on the back porch on a washboard!"
"A word of the faith that never balks, Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely. It alone is without flaw, it alone rounds and completes all, That mystic baffling wonder alone completes all. (23)"