“The trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans. I say, the trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans.”
― Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea
― Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea
“We've got to live in the real world. If we don't like the world we're living in, change it. And if we can't change it, we change ourselves. We can do something.”
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“We cannot leave it to history as a discipline nor to sociology nor science nor economics to tell the story of our people”
― Sacred Cows...and Other Edibles
― Sacred Cows...and Other Edibles
“If you don’t understand your past, you can’t transcend it, you might repeat it, you don’t understand half of your life. Knowledge is what’s important, you know? Not the erasure, but the confrontation of it.”
― Toni Morrison: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
― Toni Morrison: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations
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