Tracey

“One of the most effective ways in which dominant groups maintain their power is by depriving the people they dominate of the knowledge of their own history.
Lacking an appreciation of their own historical experience and the dignity, even glory, of the actions of their own people, the colonized are encouraged to think that they have no alternative to oppressive conditions.”
― Jane Sherron De Hart, Women's America: Refocusing the Past

“Strength, courage & wisdom...it's been inside of me all along...”
― India.Arie

“Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war. And until there are no longer first-class and second-class citizens of any nation, until the colour of a man's skin is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes. And until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race, there is war. And until that day, the dream of lasting peace, world citizenship, rule of international morality, will remain but a fleeting illusion to be pursued, but never attained... now everywhere is war.”

- Popularized by Bob Marley in the song War”
― Haile Selassie I, Selected Speeches

“Excuse me, but what kinda black lady are you?" I smiled, looked at her, and said, "The kinda black lady that you wanna know.”
― Rebecca Carroll, Sugar in the Raw: Voices of Young Black Girls in America