"After centuries of slavers took her strongest sons and daughters, after years of colonialism, Africa needs her progeny to bring something to her"
-Maya Angelou, 1928
"How dare anyone tell us that Africa cannot be redeemed when we have 400 million men and women with warm blood coursing through their veins?"
-Marcus Garvey, 1887-1940
"When Europe was inhabited by a race of cannibals, a race of savage men, heathens and pagans, Africa was peopled with a race of cultured black men who were masters in art, science, and literature"
-Marcus Garvey
"the darkness thing about Africa is America's ignorance of it"
-James H. Robinson, 1907-1972
"In hating Africa and in hating the africans, we ended up hating ourselves without even realizing it"
-Malcolm X
"I come here to make a speech, to tell you the truth. If the truth is anti-american, then blame the truth, dont blame me."
-Malcolm X
" Im not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner. Sitting at the table doesnt make you a diner"
-Malcolm X
"Teach your children they are direct descendants of the greatest and proudest race who ever peopled the earth"
-Marcus Garvey
"God made us his perfect creation. He made no mistake when he made us black with kinky hair"
-Marcus Garvey
"Blackness is no longer a color; it is an attitude"
-Dick Gregory, 1932
"Knowledge is power, and power is the key to changing things"
-Jill Nelson
"The more blackness a woman has. The more beautiful she is"
-Alex Haley, 1921-1992
"We know that we are beautiful" (Yes i!!!!!!)
-Langston Hughes
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