227 Quotes About Black-history

Marie's loud protestations about the lack of black history celebrations in town had resulted in a sheepish and hastily thrown together assembly each year at the public library, where all the while children and Adia sang praises to peanuts and open-heart surgery and air-conditioning underneath a store-printed banner that read THE WONDERS OF BLACK INNOVATION.

Plus I have no doubt that their garden is also where my grandparents dreamed—for a better life of equality for their grandchildren and future generations. As people rooted in their faith, they probably did a lot of praying here as well, that God would deliver us all to prosperity and peace beyond this plot of land.

If you stay on this path as long as I have, you’ll soon learn that the road to providence leads right through perdition. And along that road, the devil’s waiting to collect his pound of flesh.

He broke me down past the flesh, past the muscle, past the bone, down to my soul and in a loud provocation, he asked, “What are you made of?”After I gathered the broken bits and pieces of my life together, I shouted at the top of my lungs, “HOPE! Unbreakable, undeniable, irrevocable hope!

George Floyd’s pleas awakened this world that has been rendered comatose by fear of contagion and all of a sudden nothing mattered but justice.

There ain't no haints in Detroit.

The validation of your dreams is not in the colour of your skin but in the quality of your heart.

The significance of a revolution will be known after the days have gone past us. When the children in the coming years wake up and like the albatross glide across the azure sky. The freedom to live a life of meaning and joy. Let us take a stand for what is right. And let us raise our voice against injustice. Black lives matter.

I'm not quite sure what freedom is, but i know damn well what it ain't. How have we gotten so silly, i wonder.