Black Power Quotes
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Black is a colour of power and strength (Black Power Quotes)
There’s been a lot of talk about black men and the presence and absence of black men in positions of power in American culture. (Black Power Quotes)
The leading distinction of magnets is sex... The kind that is found in Troas is black, and of the female sex, and consequently destitute of attractive power. (Black Power Quotes)
If you have the power to see things through somebody else’s eyes, it’s like going from black and white to color or two dimensions to three dimensions. (Black Power Quotes)
Black is a color of power and strength, and to see all those players, with the captains linking their arms in front - it’s a powerful picture. (Black Power Quotes)
The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions. (Black Power Quotes)
John Carlos provided the world with one of the most iconic images of the 1960s with his Black Power salute after a medal-winning performance at the 1968 summer games. (Black Power Quotes)
The Black Power Mixtape is a documentary, first of all. It brings us closer to the voices we heard at that particular point in time. (Black Power Quotes)
In The Black Power Mixtape , you hear the voice of Angela Davis - not someone playing Angela Davis (Black Power Quotes)
Lord, I fashion dark gods, too, Daring even to give You Dark despairing features (Black Power Quotes)
President Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement. He had the opportunity to go to some of the best schools in this country - schools that train you how to run the political paradigm, not challenge it. The leaders of the Black Power Movement were challenging that paradigm. (Black Power Quotes)
Don’t terrorize. Organize. Don’t burn. Give kids a chance to learn . . . The real answer to race problems in this country is education. Not burning and killing. Be ready. Be qualified. Own something. Be somebody. That’s Black Power. (Black Power Quotes)
I ain’t going to jail no more. The only way we gonna stop them white men from whuppin’ us is to take over. What we gonna start sayin’ now is Black Power! (Black Power Quotes)
The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever. (Black Power Quotes)
The black power movement was not a separation from the civil rights movement, but a continuation of this whole process of democratization. (Black Power Quotes)
Black Power simply means: Look at me, I’m here. I have dignity. I have pride. I have roots. I insist, I demand that I participate in those decisions that affect my life and the lives of my children. It means that I am somebody (Black Power Quotes)
We had to learn that we’re beautiful. We had to relearn something forcefully taken from us. We had to learn about Black power. People have power if we unite. We learned the importance of coming together and being active (Black Power Quotes)
It is necessary to understand that Black Power is a cry of disappointment. The Black Power slogan did not spring full grown from the head of some philosophical Zeus. It was born from the wounds of despair and disappointment. It is a cry of daily hurt and persistent pain (Black Power Quotes)
New York white youth were killing victims; that was a ‘sociological’ problem. But when black youth killed somebody, the power structure was looking to hang somebody (Black Power Quotes)
Black Power is a nihilistic philosophy born out of the conviction that the Negro can’t win... the view that American society is so hopelessly corrupt and enmeshed in evil that there is no possibility of salvation from within (Black Power Quotes)
We wanted black power to be all things to all people (Black Power Quotes)
Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power (Black Power Quotes)
I hope there is something worthy in my writings and not merely the novelty of a black face associated with the power to rhyme that has attracted attention (Black Power Quotes)
Nina knew the power of black and white images. Sometimes a thing was its truest self when the colors were stripped away (Black Power Quotes)
Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny (Black Power Quotes)
In the final analysis the weakness of black power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man (Black Power Quotes)
Black power can be clearly defined for those who do not attach the fears of white America to their questions about it (Black Power Quotes)
An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan (Black Power Quotes)
Black power got to moving so fast that we miscalculated the fallout. I certainly have to take some of the responsibility of that; but there was no way we anticipated the response (Black Power Quotes)