N Mari

“Anthropologists have invented the ingenious, convenient, fictional notion of the “true Negro,” which allows them to consider, if need be, all the real Negroes on earth as fake Negroes, more or less approaching a kind of Platonic archetype, without ever attaining it. Thus, African history is full of “Negroids,” Hamites, semi-Hamites, Nilo-Hamitics, Ethiopoids, Sabaeans, even Caucasoids! Yet, if one stuck strictly to scientific data and archeological facts, the prototype of the White race would be sought in vain throughout the earliest years of present-day humanity.”
― Cheikh Anta Diop, The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality

“¿Qué buscas?
preguntó.
No sabría decirlo
susurré:
el perdón
la mandala
ese perdón que es mío
y no puedo otorgarme
que camina conmigo
y no viene de fuera
ese perdón arisco
que retumba en mis sienes
que me oprime
y hace brotar las lágrimas
que lavan.”
― Claribel Alegría

“A man with a rifle or a club can only be stopped by a person who defends himself with a rifle or a club. That's equality. If the United States government doesn't want you and me to have rifles, then take the rifles away from those racists.
If they don't want you and me to use clubs, take the clubs away from the racists. If they don't want you and me to get violent, then stop the racists from being violent. Don't teach us non-violence!!!”
― Malcolm X

“It's always night, or we wouldn't need light.”
― Thelonious Monk