62 Quotes by Geoffrey Canada

It is important to have permanent safe spaces in Harlem.

We've gotta guarantee all of our kids an education.

You don't need someone destroying you when your own people are the worst messengers possible. And this is what black people in America have not come to grips with.

You go through the Civil Rights struggle, everybody knew the songs - 'We shall overcome.' Everybody would sing it. Music helped us. James Brown, 'Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud.' They helped black people figure out how to navigate what was a very treacherous place in America for them.

There's not a day that goes by that I don't draw on my undergraduate background in psychology.

Young people will tell you, if you're not prepared to write the most violent, the most misogynistic, the most horrible kinds of rhymes and scenarios, you are not going to get air play.

Monsters work seven days a week and don't take vacations.

Movies portray men as tough guys.

If you raise a child, there's no time, you can't be a great parent.