22 Quotes by Daniel Black

The pain of what happened next lives in our collective memory. It mauls our souls each day. Yet it must be told. Silence guarantees no healing. It promises that the child's life would be forgotten and that its mission might, one day, be thought significant. Silence is the enemy of history, and history is all we have.

Sometimes you have to grow up before you appreciate how you grew up.

The power of speech does not rely upon meaning. Words carry energy all by themselves. They vibrate through the air, with the intention of the speaker, shaping consciousness and touching hearts whether understood or not.

Big don't mean ugly, and thin sho don't mean pretty. If a person wants to be pretty, they gotta walk pretty, talk pretty and act pretty. Can't nobody take pretty from you.

..we all do it. We talk about people we don't like until they become famous. Then we love 'em.

Evidence doesn't always convince people of the truth, [...] especially when the lie is what they prefer.

You can't lie a lifetime,son. Either you gon' tell the truth, or the truth's gon' tell on you

Our body parts were the trademark, we believed, of a sacred, majestic people. Now the ugliness of our situation made us begin to loathe the body we’d once loved. It was a gradual occurrence at first, more a thought than a truth, but we knew that once planted, a seed soon reveals all that it bears.

Big don’t mean ugly, and thin sho don’t mean pretty. If a person wants to be pretty, they gotta walk pretty, talk pretty and act pretty. Can’t nobody take pretty from you.