African Quotes
God takes us through life's journey. Always nudging our Spirits to go for plus and shun the minus.
You carry the weight of the preternatural world on those big shoulders of yours. But your heart is even bigger, and the burden you harbor there heavier.
To those who are struggling. To talk about a struggle, you're likely to forget about it. To be shown a struggle, you're likely not to forget it. But, to live through a struggle, you'll understand it.
Sentiments that glorify humanity know no racial distinction.
Call up the ever-pure, the effulgent and the ever-radiant character of true humanism in yourself and in others, and no racism shall have the power to thrive in such society even for a few seconds.
It is character that should be the sole measure of judgement in the society of thinking humanity, and nothing short of that would do.
In the biological sense, race does not exist.
Black(people) hold onto their God just as the drunken man holds on to the street lamp post—for physical support only.
If origin defines race, then we are all Africans – we are all black.
From the darkness we become stars, we behold the misery and mystery from the worlds we possess and build up fire from the glow and coils of our black souls, the Sun.
And that makes us (black women) feel like we have spokespeople, because everybody we encounter feels they have a piece of you and can tell you how to live your life
I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world.
If everyone helps to hold up the sky, then one person does not become tired.
Fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge. Only Fools despise wisdom and discipline." Proverbs 1:7 NLT
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It has been my personal experience that as I allow the painting to speak I become lost, it is delicious and at the same time frightening. The best ones, to me, have a life of their own.
We should, I think, proceed to enquire into what we mean by ideals - or rather, to examine, critically, the nature of those acts which to us appear to be outward manifestations of idealisms
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An HBCU that is not inherently revolutionary in 2016 is irrelevant.An African American Studies class that is not inherently revolutionary in 2016 is irrelevant.
...Love can give you the most exhilarating wonderful highs at times... ...Then there will be dives that will take all you have just to hold on... Quote on the Title Page of "Love TORN Asunder
He was a nobody. Yet and still, he held the gun and therfore all of the power.
In such a regime, I say you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and shoot your murdered in the chest - without asking to be paid.
Barack Obama’s victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing “mere” about symbols.
The chaos of their voices registers as a single, overwhelming force cutting off her ability to reason, and all she wants is to get as far away from people as possible.
The objective of stereotypes is not to reflect or represent a reality but to function as a disguise, or mystification, of objective social relations.
The window of her sadness was so vast that it almost opened a path to her soul.
It’s important that young people know about the struggles we faced to get to the point we are today. Only then will they appreciate the hard-won freedom of blacks in this country.
Leaders will love to be poor and see their people rich, than to be rich and see their people poor. This is their mission.
You don't necessarily need atomic bombs to destroy a nation. Politicians who value their pockets than the life of citizens always do that every day.
Leaders don't cry for what country can do for them for free. They dream about what they can do for country at high cost.
If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.- Toni Morrison
Depression is like being under house arrest, only there is no house.
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