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Black Quotes by Steven Biko
- Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.
- Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek…
- Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a…
- The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the…
- We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our birth.…
- Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a…
- It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realise that the only vehicle for change are these people who have…
- What Black Consciousness seeks to do is to produce real black people who do not regard themselves as appendages to white society. We do not…
- When you say 'Black is beautiful' you are saying, 'Man you are okay as you are, begin to look upon yourself as a human being'.
- The logic behind white domination is to prepare the black man for the subservient role in this country.
- We must realise that prophetic cry of black students: Black man you are on your own!
- To a large extent the evil-doers have succeeded in producing at the output end of their machine a kind of black man who is man…
- I would like to remind the black ministry and indeed all black people that God is not in the habit of coming down from heaven…
- Black Consciousness therefore takes cognizance of the deliberateness of God's plan in creating Black people black.
- Part of the approach envisaged in bringing about Black Consciousness has to be directed to the past, to seek to rewrite the history of the…
- Black Consciousness is in essence the realization by the black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of their…
- Black man, you are on your own.
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- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair. — Diane Ackerman
- When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery… — Teresa of Avila
- Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s. — Dan Aykroyd
- It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over… — Erykah Badu
- Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. — James A. Baldwin
- The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions. — James A. Baldwin
- Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black. — James A. Baldwin
- The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever. — James A. Baldwin
- They allow us to disrespect our Black woman. A lot of these things would be considered criminal if it were to be… — Afrika Bambaataa