Blackprint Project Quote of The Day: December 2014

There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.Quote of the Day: December 31, 2014
"There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past."

Ernest Gaines
The function of freedom is to free someone else.Quote of the Day: December 30, 2014
"The function of freedom is to free someone else."

Toni Morrison
Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.Quote of the Day: December 29, 2014
"Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due."

Eldridge Cleaver
I am being tried for fighting for the right of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America.Quote of the Day: December 26, 2014
"I am being tried for fighting for the right of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America."

Paul Robeson
Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.Quote of the Day: December 25, 2014
"Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined."

Toni Morrison
If you don't understand white supremacy/racism, everything that you do understand will only confuse you.Quote of the Day: December 24, 2014
"If you don't understand white supremacy/racism, everything that you do understand will only confuse you."

Neely Fuller
The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic, but to end the injustice.Quote of the Day: December 23, 2014
"The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic, but to end the injustice."

Paul Robeson
Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life.Quote of the Day: December 22, 2014
"Better to die fighting for freedom than be a prisoner all the days of your life."

Bob Marley
Just because fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.Quote of the Day: December 19, 2014
"Just because fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential."

Les Brown
Because the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway, whether or not we speak.Quote of the Day: December 18, 2014
"Because the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway, whether or not we speak."

Audre Lorde
What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.Quote of the Day: December 17, 2014
"What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears."

Alice Walker
Oppression is as American as apple pie.Quote of the Day: December 16, 2014
"Oppression is as American as apple pie."

Audre Lorde
Look closely at the present you are constructing. It should look like the future you are dreaming.Quote of the Day: December 15, 2014
"Look closely at the present you are constructing. It should look like the future you are dreaming."

Alice Walker
The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities.Quote of the Day: December 12, 2014
"The white man's dollar is his god, and to stop this will be to stop outrages in many localities."

Ida B. Wells
I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.Quote of the Day: December 11, 2014
"I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do."

James Baldwin
The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.Quote of the Day: December 10, 2014
"The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them."

Ida B. Wells
Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.Quote of the Day: December 9, 2014
"Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."

James Baldwin
We are the ones we have been waiting for.Quote of the Day: December 8, 2014
"We are the ones we have been waiting for."

Alice Walker
The church in the colonies is the white people's church, the foreigner's church. She does not call the native to God's ways but to the ways of the white man, of the master, of the oppressor.Quote of the Day: December 5, 2014
"The church in the colonies is the white people's church, the foreigner's church. She does not call the native to God's ways but to the ways of the white man, of the master, of the oppressor."

Frantz Fanon
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.Quote of the Day: December 4, 2014
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."
James Baldwin
Whoever is in control of the hell in your life, is your devil.Quote of the Day: December 3, 2014
"Whoever is in control of the hell in your life, is your devil."

John Henrik Clarke
I am Black, not because of a curse, but because my skin has been able to capture all the cosmic effluvia. I am truly a drop of sun under the earth.Quote of the Day: December 2, 2014
"I am Black, not because of a curse, but because my skin has been able to capture all the cosmic effluvia. I am truly a drop of sun under the earth."

Frantz Fanon
The struggle is eternal. The tribe increase. Somebody else carries on.Quote of the Day: December 1, 2014
"The struggle is eternal. The tribe increase. Somebody else carries on."

Ella Baker

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