JR
JR
NationalityFrench
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth22 February 1983
CountryFrance
beautiful struggle procrastination
We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked, and dejected with a lost opportunity. . . . Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words, 'Too late.' ... Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter, but beautiful, struggle for a new world.
inspirational giving-up long
History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.
wise men fool
Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.
inspirational death faith
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
heart mind tough
We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart.
happy-life life-is productive
A productive and happy life is not something you find; it is something you make.
dream today faces
And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
democracy kind dangerous
Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness.
sad wisdom bad-relationship
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.
thinking america make-you-think
Don't let anybody make you think that God chose America as his divine, messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.
thought-provoking advice radicalism
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative.
confused opportunity color
The white poor also suffer deprivation and the humiliation of poverty if not of color. They are chained by the weight of discrimination though its badge of degradation does not mark them. It corrupts their lives, frustrates their opportunities and withers their education. In one sense it is more evil for them because it has confused so many by prejudice that they have supported their own oppressors.
philosophy winning views
Black Power is a nihilistic philosophy born out of the conviction that the Negro can't win... the view that American society is so hopelessly corrupt and enmeshed in evil that there is no possibility of salvation from within.
kids ghetto government
I've told the kids in the ghettos that violence won't solve their problems, but then they ask me, and rightly so; "Why does the government use massive doses of violence to bring about the change it wants in the world?" After this I knew that I could no longer speak against the violence in the ghettos without also speaking against the violence of my government.