"Being black and speaking properly are not mutually exclusive. My father was an African, and he spoke beautifully at home. Nelson Mandela speaks beautifully. Should Mandela put his hat on backwards and say, 'Yo, homey, this is Nelson. Yo, Winnie, yo, this is def'?"

-- Franklyn Ajaye

#Father Quotes #Home Quotes #Black Quotes

“The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.”
“The reason why I have survived as long as I have survived is what my friends, comrades and supporters thought was an extraordinarily cautious approach.”
“Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.”

Source : Margaret Sanger (2005). “Woman and the New Race”, p.99, Cosimo, Inc.
“I go back to where I came from, to where I was before I was born, thatâ€™s all.”
“It cannot be too strongly asserted that the insistence on blind, unreasoning faith is due mainly to the maintenance of a subject-matter upon which there was no knowledge, namely the 'other world'; and that this basis was assumed because of early man's preoccupation with death. It is, unfortunately, quite possible to believe a thing which is contradicted by facts, especially if the facts are not generally known; but if the whole position on which we rested our religions had been visibly opposed by what we did know, even the unthinking masses would, in time, have noticed it.”
“Our illness is often our healing.”
“Jesmyn Ward returns to the world of her first two books, but here in the mode of non-fiction. A clear-eyed witness to the harrowing stories of 'men we reaped,' she quickens the dead and brings them, vividly alive again. An eloquent, grief-steeped account.”
“Solitude is sometimes best society.”

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