I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

We can have unity in diversity and diversity in unity. We don't have to be like one another to enjoy sisterhood.

I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons.  They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.  ~Alice Walker

"indifference is the essence of inhumanity." -George Bernard Shaw

"[The corporate mass-media] serve to divert the unwashed masses and reinforce the basic social values: passivity, submissiveness to authority, the overriding virtue of greed and personal gain, lack of concern for others, fear of real or imagined enemies, etc.
The goal is to keep the bewildered herd bewildered. It's unnecessary for them to trouble themselves with what's happening in the world.
In fact, it's undesirable - if they see too much of reality, they may set themselves to change it."
- Noam Chomsky

"you never hear fat people called food addicts, even though many are addicted to food that can cause illness and even death.  But someone addicted to drugs is not only called an addict, they are thrown in jail." -Jerry Garcia

"Politics is nothing but war without bloodshed, and war is nothing but politics with bloodshed."
-Fred Hampton

"Satan the envious said with a sigh: Christians know more about their hell than I"   -Alfred Kreymborg

"Animals were no more made for humans than black people were made for whites, or women for men." - Alice Walker

"Any nation that year after year continues to raise the Defense budget while cutting social programs to the neediest is a nation approaching spiritual death.‿ - Rev. MLK

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt." ~Mark Twain

"i have a cheese shredder at home. thats the positive name for a cheese shredder. they dont call it by its negative name because nobody would buy it: sponge ruiner. because i wanted to clean it, but now i have little bits of sponge that would melt easily over tortilla chips." -Mitch Hedberg

"i don't have a girlfriend... I just know a girl who would get really upset if she heard me say that." - Mitch Hedberg

No poor, rural, weak, or black person should ever again have to bear the additional burden of being deprived of the opportunity for an education, a job, or simple justice.

Intelligence may control the mechanism of civilization,
wisdom may direct it, but spiritual idealism is the
energy which really uplifts and advances human
culture from one level of attainment to another.

The fool speaks because he has to say something, but the wise speaks because he has something to say.

I used to be disgusted, but now I try to be amused...

 

Black people are the magical faces at the bottom of society's well.  Even the poorest whites, those who must live their lives only a few levels above, gain their self-esteem by gazing down on us.  Surely, they must know that their deliverance depends on letting down their ropes.  Only by working together is escape possible.  Over time, many reach out, but most simply watch, mesmerized into maintaining their unspoken commitment to keeping us where we are, at whatever cost to them or to us (Bell).