298 Quotes About Black-lives-matter

No matter how many times my dad urged me to reach for the stars, my understanding of the universe was still confined by the world' limited notion of what a Black country girl from the South could do or who she could become.

Our fellow brothers and sisters are physical free, but psychological are still slaved and colonized . That is why they always treat, serve, respect and address black and white people differently.

always docile.always stud.always inept.always killing.always ugly.always dumb.always drugs.always loathing.always tragic.always lurking.always animal.always respectable. politics.always high white.always fetish black.always unpowered.always hyperbolic.always fear.always on fire.always impotent.always destruction.always spectacle.always shatter.always exacted into the perfect porn star.to bring the world to orgasm.— emotional porn (the black image industry)

But we live in a society where if you're a person of color, a disabled person, a single mother, or an LGBT person, you have to be exceptional. And if you are exceptional, by the standards put forth by white supremacists patriarchy, and you are lucky, you will most likely just barely get by. There's nothing inspirational about that.

What should the Oakland Police Department do next?'Next? Moss thought. [...]'Stop killing us.'Then Moss walked away from it all.

Mistakes were made. Bodies were broken. People were enslaved. We meant well. We tried our best. "Good intention" is a hall pass through history, a sleeping pill that ensures the Dream.

The law is not an ass but a chameleon in ass skin: it turns deathly black when around blacks and pristine white when around whites

As a teenager I felt misunderstood. I felt confused. Somewhere in that confusion was me. The me I was destined to become.

A determined spirit can never be broken.