"So for everybody who allows themselves to be separated from me because I said 'African' instead of 'Nubian' or 'Black' or 'Kemet' or 'original' or 'Israelite,' don't be so foolish. I say 'African' because the continent of Africa is the land from which we all originate. It is the word that we are most familiar with right now."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Sister Souljah

#Land Quotes #Black Quotes #Foolish Quotes

“The Lord is first, my friends are second, and I am third.”

Source : Gale Sayers, Al Silverman (1972). “I Am Third”
“We need fathers to step up, to realize that their job does not end at conception; that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child but the courage to raise one.”
“I was always self-taught, there was no-one to study with when I was doing composition.”

Source : "The Music Show" with Andrew Ford, www.abc.net.au. August 24, 2002.
“Not everybody will become a baseball star and not everybody will make the money I'm making.”
“Within my body are all the sacred places of the world, and the most profound pilgrimage I can ever make is within my own body.”
“We were idealists. We thought that when we got the vote the whole pattern of politics would be greatly improved and would be dominated by women.”
“In life there is not time to grieve long.”
“In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.”

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