So for everybody who allows themselves to be separated from me because I said "African" instead of "Nubian" or "Black" or "Kemet" or "original" or "Israelite," don't be so foolish. I say "African" because the continent of Africa is the land from which we all originate. It is the word that we are most familiar with right now.

Sister Souljah

Categorized in : Foolish Land Black

To be a real man or woman, you've got to know what you believe in. You've got to understand that your actions have consequences and that they are connected to everything that you are.

Sister Souljah

real men believe

Drugs is a government game, Bilal. A way to rob us of our best black men, our army. Everyone who plays the game loses. Then they get you right back where we started, in slavery! Then they get to say "This time you did it to yourself." I won't play that game.

Sister Souljah

army games men

No one can remain married today because they are not married to the one they love, they are married to their sacrifice, and pretending to love is too damned painful. Love and build, love and work, love and fight. Always love first. Anything placed before love will fail.

Sister Souljah

sacrifice fighting love-is

Love and build, love and work, love and fight. Always love first. Anything placed before love will fail.

Sister Souljah

failing fighting firsts

I never said I was an angel. Nor am I innocent or holy like the Virgin Mary. What I am is natural and serious and as sensitive as an open nerve on an ice cube.

Sister Souljah

nerves ice angel

Rage is the opposite of thought, whoever has put you in this frame of mind has more control over you right now, than you have over yourself. If he is your opponent and you will face him today, you will be defeated.

Sister Souljah

over-you mind opposites

A woman is more than a powerful feeling or unforgettable taste, and a man should not try to eat from every dish. A good woman is a jewel from Allah for which a man must pay a heavy price. Be very careful.

Sister Souljah

powerful jewels men

dead in the mind, meanin you're present but your ignorance only makes ur presense worse!

Sister Souljah

ignorance mind

A man who doesn't say what he means or do what he says, craves attention and misuses it when he gets it, doesn't share what he knows and earns,deserves death.

Sister Souljah

attention men mean

Now I realized that me and him were just alike. We were both born to win. And, when we were not winning, it was OK 'cause we were busy planning to win.

Sister Souljah

planning causes winning

If you do something positive, something positive will come back to you. If you consciously do negative things, then negativity will rule your life.

Sister Souljah

negativity ifs negative

Racism is a system of power and in the absence of power you cannot be considered a racist.

Sister Souljah

racist racism absence

We are fighters and survivors. We are here. We are alive and breathing, living and loving, birthing and caring, working and earning. The sky is above us. The earth is below us. We can never be poor. ~ NanaAnna

Sister Souljah

breathing caring sky

It might be hard to believe, but the air in prison is different. There's like one thousand people sucking on the one little piece of fresh air until it turns stale.

Sister Souljah

air believe people

Those that trust no one, usually end up trusting the wrong person."-Umma to Midnight

Sister Souljah

wrong-person trust-no-one midnight

a person who is arrogant is also ignorant!

Sister Souljah

arrogant ignorant persons

Unless you are a part of someone's life every day or even just with them most of the time, you will never really know what they have and had, what happened with them and how they really are, what they do, why they do it that way and what they feel.

Sister Souljah

happened feels way

Are you crazy? The last thing you want to do is make a scene." "Well, I'm gonna make a movie if you don't show me some respect.

Sister Souljah

lasts crazy want

Bill Clinton is like a lot of white politicians. They eat soul food, they party with black women, they play the saxophone, but when it comes to domestic and foreign policy, they make the same decisions that are destructive to African people in this country and throughout the world.

Sister Souljah

party play country

My definition of good is that you understand that this is a question of power. That you be willing to give up some power. That you be willing to give up some resources.

Sister Souljah

resources definitions giving-up