"They taught you about the sweet bye and bye in the sky when you die, but never taught you nothin' sound on ground while you're still around!"

"Forgiving whites for acts of racism is a mental illness on the part of Black people."

"The destruction of Black males now is indirect, so that the Black male victims themselves can be led to participate in - and then be blamed for- their own mass deaths." Continue Resting in Power Dr. Frances Cress Welsing

"There is nothing wrong with telling Black Women who have been oppressed and disrespected for so many years that they're Beautiful like no other. It's not prejudice and it damn sure isn't racist. The only time you get attacked for uplifting women is if they're Black." Unknown

"What I have learned is that a whole lot of people with degrees don't know a damn thing, and a lot of people with no degrees are brilliant."

“Those who are mentally free understand our rights stem from a much higher source."

"I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight."

"The Job of the conscious is to make the unconscious conscious." Kwame Ture

"We live in an era when no oppressed people will be satisfied to let the oppressor continue to oppress them without doing something about it..."

"Not only does the enemy make you ignorant...he makes you want to love ignorance and hate knowledge."

"The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed."

"Revolution is based on land. Land is the basis of all independence. Land is the basis of freedom, justice, and equality."

"If we don't know who we are, then we are whoever somebody says we are."

The Beauty of melanin 🖤

A young Whoopi Goldberg. There was nothing ugly about Her 🖤

Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (H. Rap Brown) and Nina Simone