Quotes

Quotes

Seek What is True

It is that seeking that brings us together again and again

- Bell Hooks
Killing Rage

The failure of the Negro race, as a race, to achieve equality cannot be blamed wholly on white oppression. This is the excuse, the crutch, the piteous and finally pathetic defense of Negropholes unable or willing to face reality. In other times and other places, sturdy, creative and sefl-reliant miorities have cared out their own destiny; they have compelled acceptance on their own merit; they have deomstrated those qualities of leadership and resourcefulness and disciplined ambition that in the end cannot ever be denied.
- James J. Kilpatrick- 1962

The N Word
Names have always been a problem for black people in America... our names bespeak the tangles of American culture- miscegenation, issues of property and ownership, the peculiar violoence of our past- in the same way our skins do.
- C.S Giscombe, Into and Out of Dislocation 2000

"The word Nigger to a colored person," Langston Hughes once observed is like a red rag to a bull."

" If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
Frederick Douglass
" West India Emancipation" Speech, August 4, 1857

We have to change our minds, we've got to change our own minds about eachother. We have to see eachother with new eyes. We have to come together in warmth...
Malcolm X

Understanding of everyday racism- An interdisciplinary theory
Essed Philomena

Imprisonment is the new slavery for the black community. On average, states spend over three times as much per prisoner as per public school pupil. What does that say about what does that say about what we value.

The words of writer and environmental activest Terry Tempest Williams make clearer the urgency of this book's message: " The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time."

If we are arrested every day, exploited everyday, if we are tranpled everyday, dont ever let anyone pull you so low as to hate them. We must realize so many people are taught to hate us that they are not totally responsible for their hate.
- Martin Luther King Jr