Quotes...

A list of quotes that i find to interesting...


"When you address a people by their right name that name must relate to land, history and culture. All people go back to the geography of their original origin and identify them selves no matter where they live on the earth. We have over used to the word black because black tells you how you look...but not who you are...you can call an Italian white but that doesn't tell you anything about him "
John Henrik Clarke

"Powerful people never educate powerless people in what they need that they can use to take the power away from powerful people; it's too much to expect. If I was in power, I would not educate people in how to take my powers away."
Dr. John Henrik Clarke

"Black Consciousness is in essence the realization by the black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of their operation - the blackness of their skin - and to operate as a group in order to rid themselves of the shackles that bind them to perpetual servitude."
Steve Biko

"You're not an African because you're born in Africa. You're an African because Africa is born in you. It's in your genes.... your DNA....your entire biological make up. Whether you like it or not, that's the way it is. However, if you were to embrace this truth with open arms....my, my, my....what a wonderful thing."
Marimba Ani

"African-Americans have not yet learn that no other people have continued worshipping another's God, especially their slave master's god or gods and freed themselves from cultural and physical genocide. Why should Africans and African-Americans be the only exception to this historic reality?"
Dr. Ben


"History is a clock people use to tell their historical culture and political time of the day. It's a compass that people use to find themselves on the map of human geography. The history tells them where they have been, where they are and what they are. But most importantly history tells a people where they still must go and what they still must be"
Dr. John Henrik Clarke

"The economic philosophy of black nationalism only means that our people need to be re-educated into the importance of controlling the economy of the community in which we live, which means that we won't have to constantly be involved in picketing and boycotting other people in other communities in order to get jobs"
Malcolm X

"Billions of dollars a year is pumped into the propaganda machine to keep black people ignorant of the truth about their history and condition."
Unknown


"If you have achieved any level of success, then pour it into someone else. Success is not success without a successor."
T. D. Jakes

"The most disastrous aspect of colonization which you are the most relunctant to release from your mind is their colonization of the image of God."
Dr. Frances Cress-Welsing

"The only protection against injustice in man is power.....physical, financial and scientific."
Marcus Garvey