36 quotes found
“The validation of your dreams is not in the colour of your skin but in the quality of your heart.”
“I'm not quite sure what freedom is, but i know damn well what it ain't. How have we gotten so silly, i wonder.”
“There was virtually no aspect of twentieth-century defense technology that had not been touched by the hands and minds of female mathematicians.”
“To paraphrase Forrest Gump, "Ugly is, as Ugly does!”
“The war that killed my grandfather and great-uncles and thousands of other blacks is only a footnote in our history books.”
“I watched as people went to the memorial reading the names. I started at the first entry from 1954. I read each one quietly but out loud to myself, like Id done with the names of those in the museu...”
“You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason. The limits of your ambition were, thus, expected to be set forever. You were bo...”
“I'm hurting because the color of my skin makes me perfect for their target practice.”
“every time this happensI see my fathermy brothermy would be sonI see myselfstop killing us”
“Black people are not the descendants of kings. We areand I say this with big pridethe progeny of slaves. If theres any majesty in our struggle, it lies not in fairy tales but in those humble origin...”
“A conquering force sustained the old folks and now centers us. Forming a collective of comeback saints, let us rally behind them and move forward. Were called to a new awakening and application of ...”
“I'm here to tell niggas it ain't all swell.There's Heaven then there's Hell niggasOne day your cruisin' in your seven,Next day your sweatin', forgettin' your lies,Alibis ain't matchin' up, bullshit...”
“The official erasure of any existence before enslavement as if black Americans did not exist before the yolk and the chains and whip has always created a passion for us.Black people need to find ...”
“Negro poverty is not white poverty. Many of its causes and many of its cures are the same. But there are differences - deep, corrosive, obstinate differences - radiating painful roots into the comm...”
“Plus I have no doubt that their garden is also where my grandparents dreamedfor a better life of equality for their grandchildren and future generations. As people rooted in their faith, they proba...”
“He broke me down past the flesh, past the muscle, past the bone, down to my soul and in a loud provocation, he asked, What are you made of?After I gathered the broken bits and pieces of my life tog...”
“If you stay on this path as long as I have, youll soon learn that the road to providence leads right through perdition. And along that road, the devils waiting to collect his pound of flesh.”
“A woman without no options is waitin for a man to come by an ruin her.”
“We believe in equality for all, and privileges for none. This is a belief that each American regardless of background has equal standing in the public forum, all of us. Because we believe this idea...”
“Thoughtful white people know they are inferior to black people. Anyone who has studied the genetic phase of biology knows that white is considered recessive and black is considered dominant. When y...”
