1. “The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.” 2. I feel that I am...
Rosa Parks, often honored as “The First Lady of Civil Rights” and “The Mother of the Freedom Movement,” occupies a central place...
“But what of black women?… I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.” “For education among all kinds...
In 1990, Dr Haki R. Madhubuti begins his book, Black Men: Obsolete, Single, Dangerous?, with the statement, “The...
Dr. Frances Cress Welsing was a third-generation physician specializing in general and child psychiatry. Her book, The Isis...
Fred Hampton was an African-American activist and deputy chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party in the late 1960s. Hampton was known as one of the most inspiring,...
I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that. (About Ebola):...
“To be Black was to be the beneficiary of a great inheritance, a special destiny, glorious burdens that...
“Love is a torrential storm of feeling; it thrives only in partnership with laughing generosity and truthfulness.” “The contradictions were apparent to Makhaya, and perhaps there was no greater crime as...
“Character, not circumstance, makes the person.” “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that...
“Frequently, I have been asked how I got to be this way. How did I, born black in...
“I speak to the Black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.” “The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.” “I’ve learned that people...
Meserette Kentake, founder of Kentake Page, was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica, and is of Yoruba descent (mtDNA). Now based in London, she holds a BSc in Counselling Psychology but is most passionate about…
