Black People : Share Your Favorite Quotes

[I-khan]

"There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time. "


Malcolm X

 

[I-khan]

"My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors. "-Maya Angelou

 

[I-khan]

"Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it. "
John Henrik Clarke

 

[I-khan]

"It is too often forgotten that when the Europeans gained enough maritime skills and gunpowder to conquer most of the world, they not only colonized the bulk of the world's people but they colonized the interpretation of history itself. Human history was rewritten to favor them at the expense of other people. The roots of modern racism can be traced to this conquest and colonization."
John Henrik Clarke

 

[I-khan]

The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
You're either part of the problem or part of the solution.

You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.


Eldridge Cleaver