“The upside of being a part of a post-civil rights generation is that black folks really are more diverse. But the flash point for that diversity is caught up in Hip Hop. So you have a generation that says, 'I'm gonna wear my sneakers, and I'm gonna wear my pants how I like themThen you have a generation that says, 'I did not get bit by dogs for you to conduct yourself this way. Then the younger generation says, 'Yes, you did. This is what freedom means.'” WayMeanBitsBlackRightsGenerationsDogDiversityFolksCaughtHip HopCivil RightsHipsPostsHopsPantsFlashDiverseCaught UpYounger GenerationSneakers Author:Reginald Hudlin
“There are a lot of good comics, no doubt, but as far as the quality of the comics goes, I think what you have is a bunch of situational comics - there are black comics that work only black crowds, gay comics that do only gay crowds, and southern comics that only work down South, and so on with Asian, Latino, Indian, midgets, etc. The previous generation's comics were better because they had to make everybody laugh.” ThinkingBlackQualityLaughingDoubtGenerationsGaySouthCrowdsBunchIndianNo DoubtEtcSouthernAsianLatinoMidgetPrevious Generations Author:Chris Rock
“There is an entire generation of young people who know nothing about how viciously the FBI attacked The Black Panther Party, and why.” PeopleKnowsYoungBlackPartyGenerationsFbiPanthersBlack PantherBlack Panther Party Author:Bobby Seale
“(Five) thinkers since Galileo, each informing his successor of what discoveries his own lifetime had seen achieved, might have passed the torch of science into our hands as we sit here in this room. Indeed, for the matter of that, an audience much smaller than the present one, an audience of some 5 or 6 score people, if each person in it could speak for his own generation, would carry us away to the black unknown of the human species, to days without a document or monument to tell their tale.” PeopleIfsHumansPersonsMatterHandsMightSpeakBlackRoomsAudienceFiveGenerationsDiscoveryLifetimeSpeciesTalesScoreThinkerDocumentsMonumentTorchesSuccessorsHuman SpeciesInforming Book:William James: Essays and Lectures Source: William James: Essays and Lectures
“Angry Black White Boy is bananas! Actually, it's a banana split with razor blades in it. Adam Mansbach is the white Richard Wright, and Angry Black White Boy is our generation's Native Son.” BlackWhiteBoysGenerationsSonAngryNativeAdamSplitsBladesBananasRazorsOur GenerationBlack WhiteNative SonBanana Splits Author:William Upski Wimsatt
“The legacies that parents and church and teachers left to my generation of Black children were priceless but not material: a living faith reflected in daily service, the discipline of hard work and stick-to-itiveness, and a capacity to struggle in the face of adversity.” ChildrenHardFacesLeftParentBlackCommunityChurchStruggleTeacherGenerationsIdentityMaterialsHard WorkDisciplineCapacityAdversitySticksLegacyPricelessMy GenerationFacing AdversityCultural Identity Author:Marian Wright Edelman
“I'm tired of the naked, raped, beaten black woman body. I want to see an image of black femaleness that alters our universe in some way.” WayWantWisdomBodyUniverseBlackCommunityLeadershipJusticeClassHistoryViolenceGenerationsHuman NaturePolicyEqualEthicsTiredUnityIndividualityNakedIdeologyBeatenBlack WomenEqual RightsI'm Tired Author:Bell Hooks
“It was the world of Southern, rural, black growing up, of folks sitting on porches day and night, of folks calling your mama, 'cause you walked by and didn't speak, and of the switch waiting when you got home so that you could be taught some manners. It was a world of single black older women schoolteachers, dedicated, tough; they had taught your mama, her sisters, and her friends. They knew your people in ways that you never would and shared their insight, keeping us in touch with generations. It was a world where we had a history.” PeopleWorldWayHomeNightSpeakCausesWaitingBlackHistoryGrowing UpGrowingGenerationsTaughtCallingSittingToughFolksInsightMannersSouthernDedicatedMamaDay And NightPorchOlder Women Author:Bell Hooks
“[Michael] Brown's mom, Lesley McSpadden, is the latest African American mother whose tear-streaked face forces the nation to remember the name of yet another unarmed black teenager gunned down under questionable circumstances.” RealityRememberFacesMotherPoliticsNamesForceNationsBlackCommunityJusticeFamilyHistoryViolenceGenerationsTearsMomCircumstancesEqualEthicsHuman RightsIdeologyAfrican AmericanTeenagerBrownFree SpeechEqual RightsQuestionableUnarmed Author:Jonathan Capehart
“You have to use what you have in order to get what you need and the people can not be rich unless somebody is rich. The Hip-Hop generation has carried more people with it than any other enterprise Black Americans have had.” PeopleNeedsUseOrderBlackRichGenerationsHip HopHipsEnterpriseHopsCan Not Author:Nikki Giovanni
“We've got to have a legacy of leadership. We've got to bring along with us a generation of black women who are going to confront twenty-first-century realities.” FirstsRealityBlackGenerationsCenturyTwentiesLegacyBlack Women Author:Jewell Jackson McCabe
“Black women are some of the most colorful women in the world. We come in all shadeshave so many hair textures..eye colors..body types. In this generation, it's sad to see so many black girls claiming ethnicities that they know nothing about in hopes of impressing a man or appearing 'exotic'. So many people act as if being black and beautiful is impossible. It's not. If we wanna get technical and look at our history, almost every black American is mixed. But we must stop implying that a woman's beauty comes from a part of her that is not black.” PeopleIfsKnowsMenWorldLooksBodyEyeBeautifulGirlBlackImpossibleGenerationsColorHairTypeImpressBlack WomenTextureExoticAppearingColorfulEthnicityThis GenerationBlack GirlImplyingBody TypesEye ColorWomen's Beauty Author:Skye Townsend