Black man, you are on your own.
Quote of the Day: July 31, 2015
"Black man, you are on your own."

Steve Biko
"I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted."

Frederick Douglass
I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.
Quote of the Day: July 30, 2015
Love is contraband in hell, cause love is an acid that eats away bars.
Quote of the Day: July 29, 2015
"Love is contraband in hell, cause love is an acid that eats away bars."

Assata Shakur
There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty."

Marcus Garvey
There shall be no solution to this race problem until you, yourselves, strike the blow for liberty.
Quote of the Day: July 28, 2015
We have no right to sit silently by while the inevitable seeds are sown for a harvest of disaster to our children.” W.E.B. Dubois quotes
Quote of the Day: July 27, 2015
“We have no right to sit silently by while the inevitable seeds are sown for a harvest of disaster to our children.”

W.E.B. Dubois
"One had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or a rat in a trap."

Ida B. Wells
One had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or a rat in a trap.
Quote of the Day: July 26, 2015
“I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.” Rosa Parks quotes
Quote of the Day: July 23, 2015
“I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.”

Rosa Parks
“How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?”

Malcolm X
“How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what is yours?” Malcolm X quotes
Quote of the Day: July 22, 2015
Half gods are worshipped with wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.
Quote of the Day: July 21, 2015
"Half gods are worshipped with wine and flowers. Real gods require blood."

Zora Neale Hurston
Its no disgrace to be Black, but its often very inconvenient."

James Weldon Johnson
Its no disgrace to be Black, but its often very inconvenient.
Quote of the Day: July 20, 2015
Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!
Quote of the Day: July 17, 2015
"Anytime you catch folks lying, they scared of something!"

Zora Neale Hurston
"While revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, you cannot kill ideas."

Thomas Sankara
While revolutionaries as individuals can be murdered, you cannot kill ideas.
Quote of the Day: July 16, 2015
“We believe that an individual must endeavor to assume the universalism inherent in the human condition.” Frantz Fanon quotes
Quote of the Day: July 15, 2015
"We believe that an individual must endeavor to assume the universalism inherent in the human condition.”

Frantz Fanon
"To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed."

John Henrik Clarke
To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.
Quote of the Day: July 14, 2015
Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.
Quote of the Day: July 13, 2015
"Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose."

Nelson Mandela
"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.”

Tupac Shakur
“Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.” Tupac Shakur quotes
Quote of the Day: July 10, 2015
Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?
Quote of the Day: July 9, 2015
"Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?"

Haile Selassie
Character, not circumstance, makes the person."

Booker T. Washington
Character, not circumstance, makes the person.
Quote of the Day: July 8, 2015
Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or Trinidadians or Barbadians to this hemisphere. The slave ships brought only African people.
Quote of the Day: July 7, 2015
Africans in the United States must remember that the slave ships brought no West Indians, no Caribbeans, no Jamaicans or Trinidadians or Barbadians to this hemisphere. The slave ships brought only African people."

John Henrik Clarke
"From his example in this respect I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred."

Booker T. Washington
From his example in this respect I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
Quote of the Day: July 6, 2015
What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?
Quote of the Day: July 3, 2015
"What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?"

Frederick Douglass

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