All token blacks have the same experience. I have been pointed at as a solution to things that have not begun to be solved, because pointing at us token blacks eases the conscience of millions, and I think this is dreadfully wrong.
Black Quotes
We didn’t land on Plymouth Rock. Plymouth Rock landed on us.
If you are going to think black, think positive about it. Don’t think down on it, or think it is something in your way. And this way, when you really do want to stretch out, and express how beautiful black is, everybody will hear you… How can you not stand tall? – because you are […]
The system in this country cannot produce freedom for an Afro-American. It is impossible for this… economic system, this political system, this social system, this system period.
The way I was taught, being black was a plus, always. Being a human being, being in America, and being black, all three were the greatest things that could happen to you. The combination was unbeatable.
Those social workers and sociologists – they tried to take me apart. Especially the black ones, for some reason… If I wasn’t “polarizing the community,” according to this bunch, I had “erroneously appraised the radical picture.”… One of my Mosque Seven Muslim brothers who worked with teenagers in a well-known Harlem community center showed me […]
It’s been a struggle for me because I had a chance to be white and refused.
A black plum is as sweet as a white.
Thousands of black children are drifting downstream toward a deadly waterfall. And we black adults are standing along the bank reassuring ourselves: “Well, at least it’s not our fault.” I have no interest in disputing the assertion. It really isn’t our fault – or at any rate not only our fault. My question is much […]
You see? I just wrote ‘black American.’ I couldn’t even bring myself to write “African American.” It’s a phrase that, for me, doesn’t roll naturally off the tongue: “African American.” Is that what we really are? Is there anything really “African” left in the descendants of those original slaves who made that tortuous journey across […]
