Remembering Maya: Quotes from Mom & Me & Mom
“Frequently, I have been asked how I got to be this way. How did I, born black in a white country, poor in a society...
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Ten Powerful Quotes by Maya Angelou
“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...
Ten Powerful Quotes by Walter Rodney
“Walter Rodney was the symbol of a committed scholarship; tears came to his eyes whenever he spoke of the suffering masses of humanity.” ~Molefi Asante...
Tenderness by Andre Lorde
“We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from...
Ten Great Quotes by Nelson Mandela
I have read most ‘adult’ books on Nelson Mandela, and my favorite is Conversations with Myself. I have found him deeply inspiring. His mind was...
Ten Powerful Quotes from Message to the Grassroots by Malcolm X
“Message to the Grass Roots” was a public speech delivered by Malcolm X on November 10, 1963, at the Northern Negro Grass Roots Leadership Conference,...
Quotes from Roots by Alex Haley
“Out under the moon and stars, alone with his son…he walked to the edge of the village, lifted his baby up with his face to...
Quotes from Middle Passage by Charles Johnson
“Perhaps even more important to them than freedom was the fact that no leaf fell, no word uttered or deed executed that did not echo...
Quotes from Goree: Point of Departure by Angela Barry
“The African family was like a city, vast and embracing to all of like mind, but full of perils for those who were not. Looking...