"The first slave to read and write was the first to run away."

Henry Louis Gates

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April Quotes

"What we can see depends heavily on what our culture has trained us to look for." Nell Irvin Painter April 28

"The Negro does not want love. He wants justice." E. Franklin Frazier April 27

"I, too, am America." Langston Hughes April 26

"The younger generation comes, bringing its gifts. They are the first fruits of the Negro Renaissance." Alain LeRoy Locke April 25

"Ownership, that's what you give your kids. That's your legacy." Prince April 25

"I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls." W.E.B. DuBois April 21

"You can never enslave somebody who knows who he is." Alex Haley April 20

"Time moves slowly, but passes quickly." Alice Walker April 19

"The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty." H. Rap Brown April 18

"In order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom." Stokely Carmichael April 18

"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life." Muhammad Ali April 14

"Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people." Malcolm X April 13

"A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him." James A. Baldwin April 12

"We have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned it.~ Michelle Alexander April 11

"You self image is so powerful it unwittingly becomes your destiny." Oscar Micheaux April 9

"The rights of no oppressed people have ever yet been obtained by a voluntary act of justice on the part of the oppressors." Martin Delany April 7

"Leadership is building a bridge that connects the vision with the purpose." David Walker April 7

"A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box." Frederick Douglass April 5

"I got my start by giving myself a start." Madam C.J. Walker April 4

"Do not remove the kinks from your hair--remove them from your brain." Marcus Garvey April 1

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