If men could become pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament
Flo Kennedy

Young single black men can either represent a positive progressive force or one that just continues to react to crisis after crisis.
Haki R. Madhubuti

America doesn't respect anything but money...What our people need is a few millionaires.
Madame C.J. Walker

Some white people are so accustomed to operating at a competitive advantage that when the playing field is level, they feel handicapped.
Nathan McCall

This is our country. We don't have to slip around like peons or thieves in the middle of the night, asking someone for open sesame. Knock the damn door down!!
Harold Washington- Deceased mayor of Chicago

We don't hate nobody because of their color. We hate oppression!!
Bobby Seale- Former leader of the Black Panthers.

Too  many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down, when wew could use that same energy- if not less of it- doing, or at least trying to do, some of the things we really want to do.
Terry McMillan. Author of Waiting To Exhale & How Stella Got Her Groove Back

...It is time for blacks to begin the shift from a wartime to a peacetime identity, from fighting for opportunity to the seizing of it.
Shelby Steele

We ain't what we want to be; we ain't what we gonna be; but thank God, we ain't what we was.
African-American Folk Saying

When coming over to America, we had to change a lot of things. But we didn't give nobody permission to rearrange us.
Erykah Badu

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
Aesop

Knowledge of one's identity, one's self, community, nation, religion, and God is the true meaning of resurrection, while ignorance of it signifies hell.
Elijah Muhammad

If you don't dream, you might as well be dead.
George Foreman

When you're creating your own shit...even the sky ain't the limit.
Miles Davis

Film is not to be played with. It may be our most powerful medium and should be treated as such.
Spike Lee

All womanhood is hampered today because the world on which it is emerging is a world that tries to worship both virgins and mothers and in the end despises motherhood and despoils virgins.
W.E.B. DuBois

The Afro-American experience is the only real culture that America has. Basically, every American tries to walk, talk, dress and behave like African Americans.
Hugh Masakela, South African jazz trumpeter. International Herald Tribune.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.. "Letter from Birmingham Jail"

To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. . . . On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.
Stephen Carter U.S. lawyer and author. Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
Frederick Douglass

If you ask a Negro where he's been, he'll tell you where he's going.
Black American Saying. Quoted by Maya Angelou in: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

The price for peace of mind is priceless.
Your's truly- The Ebonical Intellecualtist

When I adopted the attitude "I don't care what you think," I began to make my mark. That was the challenge: "You don't want Blacks? Then I'm going to change your mind and make you hire some."
Robert Guillaume.

Every time I'm faced with a challenge, all I can hear is my grandmother saying, "Give it to the Almighty!" Somehow, the answer always follow shortly after.
Tico Wells. Actor in The Five Heartbeats.

I am sick and tired of nice Black people. Be polite, but speak your mind. Get angry and let these people know it. You do have power.
Rep. Maxine Waters

Prayer has been something that was always in my life. But I found myself only praying when I needed or wanted something. My mom always reminded me to pray every day because God wakes you up every day...and God is everything, without Him, what would there be? Now I remember to pray and thank God for each day no matter what day, because I know everything will work out just fine with God.
Lorenzo. Singer

Your life on this earth is temporary, your life off this earth is forever. Make sure you do something that will make your eternal afterlife a pleasureable one.
Your's Truly- The Ebonical Intellectualist

It's getting to a time where children are not resembling their fathers, but their environment.
Author Unknown

Fatherhood has validated me as a human.
Eric Benet

I must see (Africa), get close to it, because I can never lose the sense of being a displaced person here in America because of my color.
Paule Marshall

One ever feels his two-ness- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
W.E.B. DuBois

It is the consciousness behind the gun that determines if the gun is positive or negative. So let's not blame it on no guns, no pistols, and no gats. Let's blame it on the consciousness of the mind holding the gat.
KRS One

We are almost a nation of dancers, musicians, and poets.
Olaudah Equiano

The Negro pays for what he wants and begs for what he needs.
Kelly Miller

If you want to keep something secret from black folks, put it between the covers of a book.
African-American Folk Saying

Sex has been devalued. Sex has now become a casual physical act that places physical pleasure as one of its primary objectives rather than the emotional unity that two people can share as a result of ordained sexual activity.
John Edward Malvern, Jr.

I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Fannie Lou Hamer

Is the forfeiture of our future with God, and somehow even more valuable to people, our mundane future worth giving up simply for sexual gratification?
Your's Truly- The Ebonical Intellectualist

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The babies lose their laughter early in the game.
Adriana Evans

We are the next in line to carry the torch of liberation for our people.
Your's truly- The Ebonical Intellecualist

A child cannot be taught by someone who despises him.
James Baldwin

The divorce rate is 48% That is almost half. It makes me wonder if marriages are made to be broken.
John Edward Malvern, Jr.

Blackness is not a hairstyle. It is not a dashiki. Judge my blackness by the jobs that we have, by the money we are able to generate in the community...
Bertha Knox Gilkey

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Bill Cosby

The friend of a fool is a fool. The friend of a wise person is another wise person.
The Husia

I believe in gradualism, but 90-odd years is graudal enough.
Thurgood Marshall