“When young Black boys learn that there are no limits to our possibilities on the basketball courts, we create the athletic genius of Michael Jordan or Magic Johnson and in their genius, they recreate the game of basketball. When our young people know that there are no limits to their potential in the world of manufacturing, communication, physics, chemistry or the science of the human mind, then those same young Black minds who create dances on the dance floor or compose music on their bodies with the ‘hand jive’ will recreate these fields of human endeavor with the same incomparability.”
― Breaking the Chains of Psychological Slavery
― Breaking the Chains of Psychological Slavery
“I have not been deaf to truth” and “I have not winked at injustice.”
― Maat, The Moral Ideal in Ancient Egypt: A Study in Classical African Ethics
― Maat, The Moral Ideal in Ancient Egypt: A Study in Classical African Ethics
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