Ras Baraka famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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We live in a new time and a new place, and people have to begin to be ready for the kind of oversight that the public is demanding.
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People say all lives matter. And that's true, but it's just black people that are getting shot in the back running or choked to death for having cigarettes or playing their music too loud.
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African-Americans want to be safe in their community, like any other nationality that lives in America. They don't want to be robbed. They don't want to be beat. They don't want to be shot down in their neighborhoods, whether it's by police officers or people who live there.
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I think that, ultimately, the only thing that affects race relations is fair treatment.
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African-Americans are being disproportionately affected by, you know, the kind of misuse and abuse of power.
-- Ras Baraka
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Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.
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Once a leader delegates, he should show utmost confidence in the people he has entrusted.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.
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I know this because I understand now what love really feels like. The kind that consumes you. Love holds the power to break you. It holds the power to complete you.
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Honestly, I've always had difficulty relaxing, unwinding and going to bed - that kind of stuff.
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Byrd has always been that kind of pitcher, trying to trick you, keep the ball low, in and out. He threw a lot of strikes, worked it inside and out, threw breaking balls for strikes behind in the count.
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The present is all the ready money Fate can give.
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I know you have bad news,†I say softly. “I’m ready for it.†But that’s not true. One is never ready. You just lie and say you are and hope you can take the hit on the chin without going down.
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Any therapist will tell you that when you're ready, you will come out. To be outed means you weren't ready.
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