39 quotes found
“It is not what you leave to your children that matters, but what you leave in them.”
“The Lone Star of Africa Land of the free, on your beach and sacred forests loves flourished. You, Liberia, you my love to echo, the scream of freedom, holding tight and will never let go. O beautif...”
“The headlines are never in the news! And so, what I am saying is the news is never on the headlines”
“I could not feel, smell, see, hear, or taste the world around me. If I had allowed myself to experience these things in all their intensity, I might have lost my mind. If I had allowed myself to cr...”
“Only until all human beings begin to recognize themselves as human beings will prejudice be gone forever. People ask me what race I am, but there is no such thing as race. I just answer: "Im a memb...”
“What I mean when I talk about sovereignty is that "we have a different way of being". Those of us who are organising around the idea of sovereignty are not asking for inclusion within the capitalis...”
“As a human rights activist it is concerning to me that those committing atrocities against vulnerable people view these atrocities as 'progress', and assert with pride and conviction that they are ...”
“Sometimes, people call my way of speaking ranting. Why are you always ranting and screaming, they ask. But heres the thingthe reason why I rant is because I am a voice for many women that cannot sp...”
“I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. And you...And you...And you...Gotta give em hope.”
“It is exhausting living in a population where people don't speak up if what they witness doesn't directly threaten them.”
“If your not annoying somebody, you're not alive.”
“The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is nave and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest ...”
“What can we learn from women like Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday that we may not be able to learn from Ida B. Wells, Anna Julia Cooper, and Mary Church Terrell? If we were b...”
“Life is not what you alone make it. Life is the input of everyone who touched your life and every experience that entered it. We are all part of one another.”
“Always seek justice, but love only mercy. To love justice and hate mercy is but a doorway to more injustice.”
“Truth is not fully explosive, but purely electric. You don't blow the world up with the truth; you shock it into motion.”
“During the flames of controversy, opinions, mass disputes, conflict, and world news, sometimes the most precious, refreshing, peaceful words to hear amidst all the chaos are simply and humbly 'I do...”
“The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest...”
