Betty Shabazz famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Malcolm was a firm believer in the value and importance of our heritage. He believed that we have valuable and distinct cultural traditions which need to be institutionalized so that they can be passed on to our heirs.
-- Betty Shabazz

#Needs #Heritage #Heirs
Love yourself, appreciate yourself, see the good in you... and respect yourself.
-- Betty Shabazz

#Love You #Appreciate #Respect Yourself
I wish you power that equals your intelligence and your strength. I wish you success that equals your talent and determination. And I wish you faith.
-- Betty Shabazz

#Determination #Wish #Talent
Most people cant' deal with reality, but indulge heavily in fantasy and fear.
-- Betty Shabazz

#Reality #People #Fantasy
Two young doctors - one from Harvard and the other from Dartmouth - invited me to go to Mecca in my husband's stead. And that is what helped put me back on track.
-- Betty Shabazz

#Husband #Doctors #Two
Have I gotten any threats? All I get is threats. I get at least six or seven a day.
-- Betty Shabazz

#Six #Seven #Threat
Find the good and celebrate it.
-- Betty Shabazz

#Celebrate

A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.
Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.
I cannot bear not to know the end of a tale. I will read the most trivial things â€“ once commenced â€“ only out of a feverish greed to be able to swallow the ending â€“ sweet or sour â€“ and to be done with what I need never have embarked on. Are you in my case? Or are you a more discriminating reader? Do you lay aside the unprofitable?
Remember you love writing.Â It wouldnâ€™t be worth it if you didnâ€™t.Â If the love fades, do what you need to and get it back,
My success is not measured in money. I have no financial security, I have no savings account. I measure my success by asking myself if Iâ€™m telling a story that the world needs to hear, if I am educating people.
Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn't know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.
I need to listen to chill music when I'm driving. It prevents road rage.
In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we came from.
CARNIVOROUS, adj. Addicted to the cruelty of devouring the timorous vegetarian, his heirs and assigns.
The only good produced by the disappearance of Africville was the appearance of a conscious black nationalism â€¦ In this regard, Consecrated Ground is the heir of fierce, vengeful, and epic activism.

Betty Shabazz famous quotes

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