"Dear Non-American Black, when you make the choice to come to America, you become black. Stop arguing. Stop saying I'm Jamaican or I'm Ghanaian. America doesn't care."

-- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#America Quotes #Choices Quotes #Black Quotes

“First we make our attitudes. Then our attitudes make us.”
“Seventeen's not so young. A hundred years ago people got married when they were practically our age." "Yeah, that was before electricity and the Internet. A hundred years ago eighteen-year-old guys were out there fighting wars with bayonets and holding a man's life in their hands! They lived a lot of life by the time they were our age. What do kids our age know about love and life?”
“Sloth is most often evidenced in busyness ... in frantic running around, trying to be everything to everyone, and then having no time to listen or pray, no time to become the person who is doing these things.”
“But look around at this world, how perfectly it's made. Flowers can't move, yet the insects come to them and spread their pollen. Trees can't move either, but birds and animals eat their fruit and carry their seeds far and wide.”

Source : Nahoko Uehashi (2014). “Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit”, p.120, Scholastic Inc.
“I proudly love being a Negro woman -- it's so involved and interesting.”
“Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.”
“for most of us the space between 'dreaming on things to come' and 'it is too late, it is all over' is too tiny to enter.”
“Every increase of needs tends to increase one's independence on outside forces over which one cannont have control and therefore increases existential fear”

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