Black History Month 2011
Black History Month 2011
Do not forget about those who´d paid the price
"I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me."
Ralph Ellison
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"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them."
James Baldwin
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"Who taught you to hate the texture of your hair? Who taught you to hate the color of your skin, to such extent that you bleach to get like the white man? Who taught you to hate the shape of your nose, and the shape of your lips? Who taught you to hate yourself, from the top of your head to the soles of your feet?"
Malcolm X alias Malik Al-Shabazz
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"Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more."
Stokely Carmichael
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"Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is."
Amiri Baraka
