“It's hard to tell with these Internet startups if they're really interested in building companies or if they're just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don't really want to build a company, they won't luck into it. That's because it's so hard that if you don't have a passion, you'll give up.” IfsWantInspirationalGivingI CanHardPassionMoneyBusinessCompanyBuildingInternetGiving UpLuck Author:Steve Jobs
“When my birth parents were murdered, I stayed outdoors all night with the bodies. Years later in America, around fourteen, my psychiatrist explained to me that staying with the bodies that night made me fearless. He said that it made me an 'emotional exhibitionist' and told me never to let people convince me that I was weird for speaking with clarity and passion.” PeopleYearsMadeSaidBodyAmericaNightPassionParentEmotionalBirthClarityFearlessConvinceStayingAll NightPsychiatristFourteenExhibitionistBirth Parents Author:Kola Boof
“I agree that all kids of all colors love hip-hop. My point in writing the book was to raise questions about the ways the hip-hop generation and the millennium generation, both who have lived their entire lives in post-segregation America, are processing race in radically different ways than any generation of Americans. I think they have a lot to tell us as a country about ways of addressing race matters.” ThinkingWayWritingBookDifferentCountryMatterKidsAmericaRaceGenerationsColorRaisesAgreeHip HopHipsPostsDifferent WaysHopsSegregationProcessingMillenniumRaises Questions Author:Bakari Kitwana
“I never wanted anyone to know about me and Osama [Bin Laden]. I wanted that to be a secret that I carried to my grave, and since I wasn't the one who revealed it'it's definitely something that I wish was in the closet. It's destroyed my career.” KnowsWantedWishSecretCareersGravesDestroyedClosetsBin LadenOsama Bin Laden Author:Kola Boof
“I'm not at all against white people adopting black children, because we're all human beings who need to give love and be nurtured in safety, but I do think it's better to be adopted by blacks.” PeopleThinkingNeedsGivingHumansChildrenBlackHuman BeingsWhiteSafetyAdoptedAdopting Author:Kola Boof
“I happen to know at least a hundred Sudanese refugees in the United States, all of whom were taken in by white families and white churches, and they all tell me''Naima, you were blessed to be raised by Black Americans.'” KnowsStatesHappensBlackChurchWhiteUnitedUnited StatesTakenHundredBlessedRaisedRefugee Author:Kola Boof
“Because I was in psychiatric treatment for most of my childhood and had to learn English and had to adjust to a white-dominated society, I truly know what being Sudanese refugees [adopting by white family] mean. It's not something that you can explain in the confines of an interview, but there is an immediate comfort, a connection between black phenotypes that is natural.” KnowsMeanBlackNaturalWhiteChildhoodComfortConnectionsInterviewsTreatmentRefugeeAdoptingPsychiatric Author:Kola Boof
“Even though I couldn't speak English, there were many times that my black-American parents could read my mind and I could read theirs.” MindSpeakParentBlackSpeak English Author:Kola Boof
“Race means family and all black people whether they like it or not, are family.” PeopleMeanBlackRaceBlack PeopleAll Black Author:Kola Boof
