"Identity is very personal...identity is political. My identity is what is and it is what it's gonna be. And I don't think that any information will change that profoundly...I [already] know that I am a Black woman, and a Black woman who has mixed some heritage, like most African Americans."

--

Source : Source: www.ebony.com

Jamilah Lemieux

#Thinking Quotes #Political Quotes #African American Quotes

“All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.”
“It is at the heart of our human enterprise, that is to say, at the heart of society, to allow consensus a power it ought not to have.”

Source : Jesse Ball (2014). “Silence Once Begun: A Novel”, p.216, Vintage
“Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.”
“I learn a lot; what I learn cannot be expressed in words.”
“At home I have big vats of cabbage soup that I make to slim down.”
“Prayer is the means by which men communicate with God. Revelation is the means by which God communicates with men.”

Source : Marion G. Romney (1971). “Look to God and live: discourses of Marion G. Romney”
“If you are that person, you are more likely to believe that God cured you, this invisible force, creator of the universe, cured you, than that you had three idiotic doctors diagnose you. ... I taught physics to pre-med students who became doctors. Not all of them are smart, I assure you.”
“Though it be a thrilling and marvellous thing to be merely young and gifted in such times, it is doubly so - doubly dynamic - to be young, gifted and black.”

Source : Negro Digest, Aug. 1964

You may also like: