When we were SEGREGATED/SEPARATED we were well off. We owned, we created, we made, we succeeded, we had, we dominated, we advanced, we were exceptional, we were PROUD to be Black.
“A child cannot be taught by anyone that despises him.” James Baldwin and we’re not.
“There will never be another Black Messiah unless we create him.” J. Edgar Hoover
“We need leaders not in love with money but in love with justice. Not in love with publicity but in love with humanity.” Martin Luther King Jr.
“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.” Dr. Marcus Garvey
“You cannot serve people by giving them orders as to what to do. The real servant of the people must live among them, think with them, feel for them, and die for them…The servant of the people, unlike the leader, is not on a high horse trying to carry the people to some designated point to which he would like to go for his own advantage. The servant of the people is down among them, living as they live, doing what they do and enjoying what they enjoy. He may be a little better informed than some of the other members of the group; it may be that he as had some experience they have not had, but in spite of this advantage he should have more humility than those whom he serves.” Dr. Carter G. Woodson
“The ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself but the ends you serve that are for all, in common, will take you into eternity.” Dr. Marcus Garvey
“The race needs workers at this time, not plagiarists, sopists and mere imitators; but men and women who are able to create, to originate and improve, and thus make an independent racial contribution to the world and civilisation.” Dr. Marcus Garvey
Every student of political science, every student of political economy, every student of economics knows that the race can only be saved through a solid industrial foundation; that the race can only be saved through political independence. Take away industry from a race, take away political freedom from a race and you have a slave race.” Dr. Marcus Garvey
“Whatsoever things common to man, that man has done, man can do.” Dr. Marcus Garvey
“Some of us seem to accept the fatalist position, the fatalist attitude, that God accorded to us a certain position and condition, and therefore there is no need trying to be otherwise. The moment you accept such an attitude, the moment you accept such an opinion, the moment you harbor such an idea, you hurl an insult at the great God who created you, because you question Him for His love, you question Him for His mercy.” Dr.
Marcus Garvey
“Show me in the white community where a comedian is a white leader. Show me in the white community where a singer is a white leader, or a dancer, or a trumpet player is a white leader. These aren’t leaders. These are puppets and clowns that have been set up over the Black community by the white community and have been made celebrities, and usually say exactly what they know the white man wants to hear.” Malcolm X
We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery, for though others may free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind. Mind is our only ruler; sovereign.” Dr. Marcus Garvey
“Often the Negro business man lacks common sense. The Negro in business, for example, too easily becomes a social “lion.” He sometimes plunges into the leadership in local matters. He becomes popular in restricted circles, and men of less magnetism grow jealous of his inroads. He learns how richer men of other races waste money. He builds a finer home than anybody else in the community, and in his social program he does not provide for much contact with the very people upon whom he must depend for patronage. He has the finest car, the most expensive dress, the best summer home, and so far outdistances his competitors in society that they often set to work in child-like fashion to bring him down to their level.” Dr. Carter G. Woodson
“Men, there is much to live for, and there is much to die for. The man, the race of nation that is not prepared to risk life itself for the possession of an ideal, shall lose that ideal. If you, I repeat, must be free, you yourselves must strike the blow.” Dr. Marcus Garvey
“You at this time can only be destroyed by yourselves, from within and not from without. You have reached the point where the victory is to be won from within and can only be lost from within.” Dr. Marcus Garvey,
“White Americans needed us for LABOR and for SPORTS, now they can’t get rid of us. We cannot be exiled, and we cannot be accommodated. Now, something’s got to give.” James Baldwin
“I’m BLACK, they never let me forget it.” Jack Johnson
“The search for the “white hope” not having been successful, prejudices were being piled up against me, and certain unfair persons, piqued because I was champion, decided if they could not get me one way they would another.” Jack Johnson
” At that time, it was NEVER acceptable that a black player was the BEST. That did not happen.” Bill Russell
Jim Crow Etiquette
A Black person SHOULD NOT assert that a white person is lying.
They SHOULD NOT imply a white person is from an inferior class or demonstrate superior knowledge.
They SHOULD NOT laugh derisively at a white person or comment on the appearance of a white female
BLACK WOMEN has a 400 plus year legacy which is the longest and oldest PHILANTHROPIC DEMOGRAPHIC in America. There would be NO USa without US, America need to pay us our REPARATIONS.
“But what of Black women?… I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.” Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois
As long as we BLACK WOMEN were: conceiving, nurturing, nursing, cleaning, cooking, plowing, picking, sorting, cultivating, bringing death back to life, midwifing, raising, chauffeuring, mastering, inventing, influencing, making, progressing, achieving, protecting, fixing, and assisting, assorting , assembling and ALL FOR FREE, WE WERE IDEAL, ESSENTIAL AND COVETED.
IF WE ARE THE MOST EDUCATED GROUP IN AMERICA, ALL WE NEED TO DO IS UNIFY AND OWN WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE DO AND ALWAYS HAVE DONE FOR THE PAST 500 PLUS YEARS..
This post was reposted from 2025 – "YOU PEOPLE"
