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from the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship by Amiri Baraka

from the slave ship to the citizenship we faced a lot of bullship

Amiri Baraka
citizenship slave-ships ships

Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary institution, by which closely-packed heathen are brought over to enjoy the light of the Gospel.

Harriet Beecher Stowe
slave-ships sharks light

You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa.

Henry Louis Gates
slave-ships envy roots

His foreparents came to America in immigrant ships. My foreparents came to America in slave ships. But whatever the original ships, we are both in the same boat tonight.

Jesse Jackson
slave-ships diversity america

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 and most of us took the semblance of nationality from the places where slave ships dropped us off.

John Henrik Clarke
slave-ships west people

It's time for Black people to stop playing the separating game of geography, of where the slave ship put us down. We must concentrate on where the slave ship picked us up.

John Henrik Clarke
slave-ships games people
I be off the slave ships, building pyramids, writing my own hiero... by Kendrick Lamar

I be off the slave ships, building pyramids, writing my own hieroglyphs

Kendrick Lamar
slave-ships pyramids writing

The success of the abolitionist movement lay in its making real for people in Britain and America the slave ship's pervasive and utterly instrumental terror, which was indeed its defining feature.

Marcus Rediker
britain-and-america slave-ships real

And so, whether they came here on the Mayflower, on a slave ship, or on an airplane from Havana, we are all descendants of the men and women who built here the nation that saved the world.

Marco Rubio
slave-ships airplane men

America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known.

Pat Buchanan
slave-ships christian country
Sacrifice and neon lights, Slaveships don't wait, Love many, trus... by Tom Morello

Sacrifice and neon lights, Slaveships don't wait, Love many, trust few, And don't be late...

Tom Morello
slave-ships sacrifice light

Whether our ancestors came here on the Mayflower, on slave ships, whether they came to Ellis Island or LAX in Los Angeles, whether they came yesterday or walked this land a thousand years ago our great challenge for the 21st century is to find a way to be One America. We can meet all the other challenges if we can go forward as One America.

William J. Clinton
slave-ships islands years
People can be slave-ships in shoes. by Zora Neale Hurston

People can be slave-ships in shoes.

Zora Neale Hurston
slave-ships shoes people
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