My Jewish brothers and sisters had Hitler, who was a madman, who filmed everything. They have documents, but my people don’t have documents. We don’t have film. We have spoken word.
Black Quotes
A tribute to our people’s commitment to peaceful change is the fact that the only South Africans to win the Nobel Peace Prize are both black. Our people are peace-loving to a fault.
If you are going to think black, think positive about it. Don’t think down on it, or think it is something in your way. And this way, when you really do want to stretch out, and express how beautiful black is, everybody will hear you… How can you not stand tall? – because you are […]
The system in this country cannot produce freedom for an Afro-American. It is impossible for this… economic system, this political system, this social system, this system period.
The way I was taught, being black was a plus, always. Being a human being, being in America, and being black, all three were the greatest things that could happen to you. The combination was unbeatable.
Those social workers and sociologists – they tried to take me apart. Especially the black ones, for some reason… If I wasn’t “polarizing the community,” according to this bunch, I had “erroneously appraised the radical picture.”… One of my Mosque Seven Muslim brothers who worked with teenagers in a well-known Harlem community center showed me […]
It’s been a struggle for me because I had a chance to be white and refused.
A black plum is as sweet as a white.
Thousands of black children are drifting downstream toward a deadly waterfall. And we black adults are standing along the bank reassuring ourselves: “Well, at least it’s not our fault.” I have no interest in disputing the assertion. It really isn’t our fault – or at any rate not only our fault. My question is much […]
You see? I just wrote ‘black American.’ I couldn’t even bring myself to write “African American.” It’s a phrase that, for me, doesn’t roll naturally off the tongue: “African American.” Is that what we really are? Is there anything really “African” left in the descendants of those original slaves who made that tortuous journey across […]
