227 Quotes About Black-history
- Author Tyrone Nkululeko Takawira
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Dear black boy,I know they segregated your mind to swag, hip-hop and culture. I know they taught you how to rap before you could read.
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- Author Angela Flournoy
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A woman without no options is waitin for a man to come by an ruin her.
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- Author Habeeb Akande
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It's ironic when black non-Muslims say Islam is not a religion that uplifts black people when two of the most celebrated black heroes in recent history were both Muslim; Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali.
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- Author Andrena Sawyer
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To my Black brothers and sisters, choose faith. As difficult as it is, choose faith—the kind of faith that we know without works is dead. The faith that raises awareness, educates the community, advocates, cares for the widows and feeds the orphans. Choose the faith that is compelled to action, but not controlled my anger.
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- Author Ta-Nehisi Coates
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If you really wanted to understand this country, this alleged two-hundred-year attempt to establish a society on Enlightenment values, I could think of no better place to study that effort than from the perspective of those whom that society excluded and pillaged in order to bring those values into practice.
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- Author Alex Hartley Jr.
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TRUE Hebrew Israelites DO NOT hate white people.TRUE Hebrew Israelites DO NOT have more than one wife.TRUE Hebrew Israelites DO NOT smoke marijuana or do any other types of drugsTRUE Hebrew Israelites DO NOT have to stand on corners Intimidating people into believing the way.
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- Author Israel Morrow
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In Africa every human has a spark of divine nature, and sin does not separate us from it. We are cousins of God. Every person has multiple souls, including the souls of ancestors that reincarnate through us. The purest soul is called an ori, and a person who cultivates their ori can attain divinity.
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- Author Annie L. McPheeters
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That is to say, 'forget the color line, consider a reader a reader, and cut out other such nonsense.
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- Author Annie L. McPheeters
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Third, there was little or no opportunity for professional meetings and contact within the system since the local, state, and regional associations were not open to them for visitation or membership. Fourth, before the opening of the Hampton Institute School of Library Service in 1925, professional library school training for blacks had to be obtained outside the region.
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