I Can Hear The Roar

May My Eyes Never See And My Feet Never Take Me To A Society Where Half The People Are Held In Silence.

The Greatest Difficulty We Have Faced Is The Neocolonial Way Of Thinking That Exists In This Country. We Were Colonized By A Country, France, That Left Us With Certain Habits. For Us, Being Successful In Life, Being Happy, Meant Trying To Live As They Do In France, Like The Richest Of The French.

I Can Hear The Roar Of Women's Silence

It's Really A Pity That There Are Observers Who View Political Events Like Comic Strips. There Has To Be A Zorro, There Has To Be A Star. No, The Problem Of Upper Volta Is More Serious Than That. It Was A Grave Mistake To Have Looked For A Man, A Star, At All Costs, To The Point Of Creating One, That Is, To The Point Of Attributing The Ownership Of The Event To Captain Sankara, Who Must Have Been The Brains, Etc.

The Revolution And Women's Liberation Go Together. We Do Not Talk Of Women's Emancipation As An Act Of Charity Or Out Of A Surge Of Human Compassion. It Is A Basic Necessity For The Revolution To Triumph. Women Hold Up The Other Half Of The Sky.