Black Consciousness Quotes
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In grammar school some of the girls had problems with me. My face was too light. My hair was too long. It was the black-consciousness period, and I felt really bad (Black Consciousness Quotes)
We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our birth. These are concepts which the Black Consciousness approach wishes to eradicate from the black man’s mind before our society is driven to chaos by irresponsible people from Coca-cola and hamburger cultural backgrounds (Black Consciousness Quotes)
What Black Consciousness seeks to do is to produce real black people who do not regard themselves as appendages to white society. We do not need to apologise for this because it is true that the white systems have produced through the world a number of people who are not aware that they too are people (Black Consciousness Quotes)
Part of the approach envisaged in bringing about Black Consciousness has to be directed to the past, to seek to rewrite the history of the black man and to produce in it the heroes who form the core of the African background (Black Consciousness Quotes)
Science has proved that everything is energy, and now they have dark energy, dark matter. They don’t call it all-embracing consciousness; they call it dark because they can’t measure it. You know, paint it black. (Black Consciousness Quotes)
The institutionalization of Black Studies, Feminist Studies, all of these things, led to a sense that the struggle was over for a lot of people and that one did not have to continue the personal consciousness-raising and changing of one’s viewpoint. (Black Consciousness Quotes)
That’s why Black Lives Matter thinks I’m so great. The fact of the matter is that everything is consciousness. This conversation is important. (Black Consciousness Quotes)
In all fields black consciousness seeks to talk to the black man in a language that is his own (Black Consciousness Quotes)
The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity (Black Consciousness Quotes)