Quotes by Black At this time I'd like to say a few words especially to my sisters: SISTERS. BLACK PEOPLE WILL NEVER BE FREE UNLESS BLACK WOMEN PARTICIPATE IN EVERY ASPECT OF OUR STRUGGLE, ON EVERY LEVEL OF OUR STRUGGLE. Assata Shakur black struggle people Any Black person in amerika [sic], if they are being honest with themselves, have got to come to the conclusion that they don't know what it feels like to be free. We aren't free politically, economically, or socially. We have very little power over what happens in our lives. In fact, a Black person isn't free to walk down the street. Walk down the wrong street, in the wrong neighborhood at night, and you know what happens. Assata Shakur black littles night Like all other Black revolutionaries, Amerika is trying to lynch me. Assata Shakur black revolutionary trying There is something about Sundiata [Acoli] that exudes calm. From every part of his being you can sense the presence of revolutionary spirit and fervor. And his love for Black people is so intense that you can almost touch it and hold it in your hand. Assata Shakur black hands people Black Revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. We are shaped by our oppression. We are being manufactured in droves in the ghetto streets, places like attica, san quetin, bedford hills, leavenworth, and sing sing. They are turning out thousands of us. Assata Shakur ghetto black moon Every person that steps up and commits to social change helps solidify the black movement cause. It is not easy for those who fill in the leader role. Assata Shakur black roles leader Rise above the way society is going to see you and society is going to see you at the absolutely bottom of the totem pole because not only are you female, you are Black. Never believe it and never give into that, that that's where you live or that's who you are. Audra McDonald black giving believe Whenever a conscious Black woman raises her voice on issues central to her existence, somebody is going to call her strident, because they don't want to hear about it, nor us. I refuse to be silenced and I refuse to be trivialized, even if I do not say what I have to say perfectly. Audre Lorde issues black voice We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other. Audre Lorde black study literature Every Black woman in America lives her life somewhere along a wide curve of ancient and unexpressed angers. Audre Lorde curves black america I am Black because I come from the earth's inside Audre Lorde black light jewels Perhaps...I am the face of one of your fears. Because I am a woman, because I am Black, because I am a lesbian, because I am myself--a Black woman warrior poet doing my work--come to ask you, are you doing yours? Audre Lorde warrior black faces In discussions around the hiring and firing of Black faculty at universities, the charge is frequently heard that Black women are more easily hired than are Black men. Audre Lorde faculty black men Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men. Audre Lorde black ties men But in a crunch, when all our asses are in the sling, it looks like it is easier to deal with the samenesses. When we deal with sameness only, we develop weapons that we use against each other when the differences become apparent. And we wipe each other out - Black men and women can wipe each other out - far more effectively than outsiders do. Audre Lorde black differences men Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience. August Wilson custodians experience black I think that's the core of black aesthetics: the ability to improvise. That is what has enabled our [black people's] survival. August Wilson black people thinking My greatest influence has been the blues. And that's a literary influence, because I think the blues is the best literature that we as black Americans have. August Wilson black literature thinking . . . what happened, of course, was that I was writing a play set in the 1940's that was supposed to be somehow representative of black American life, and I didn't have any women in there. And I knew that wasn't going to work. August Wilson black play writing Black is the queen of colours. Auguste Rodin colour black queens «7891011121314151617»