“Rise up Black Men, and take your stand. Reach up black men and women and pull all nature’s knowledge to you. Turn ye around and make a conquest of everything North and South, East and West. And then we you have wrought well, you will have merited God's blessing, you will become God's chosen people and naturally you'll become leaders of the world.” PeopleMenWorldWellsTurnsBlackLeaderBlessingMen And WomenWestSouthEastChosenConquestEast And WestNorth And SouthBlessing You Author:Marcus Garvey
“Life is a charity ball given by the leaders of society. A few dance, get their charity's worth to the last penny; and the poor stand outside the gate and watch with hungry eyes the glint of jewels in the warm air. Then comes the lackey Death, and he says: "Madam and my Master, your carriage waits." So they go away into the dark in the carriage of the black plumes, and the dancing continues.” LifeEyeLastsLife IsGivenWaitingBlackDarkPoorLeaderWatchesAirMastersBallsDancingCharityWarmHungryGatesGoing AwayStanding OutJewelsPenniesCarriagesLackeysHungry Eyes Author:Austin O'Malley
“There is no gay leader anywhere near the stature of Martin Luther King, because black activism drew on the profound spiritual tradition of the church, to which gay political rhetoric is childishly hostile.” SpiritualPoliticalBlackChurchLeaderKingsGayTraditionProfoundActivismRhetoricHostileLutherStaturePolitical RhetoricProfound Spiritual Author:Camille Paglia
“I think it's a bit of a myth that black Americans need one leader. We're not a monolith. And now that legal segregation and discrimination has been pretty much abolished there isn't the sort of universal mandate that a black leader would have. Black folks live in a wide variety of social situations right now.” ThinkingNeedsHas BeensSocialBitsBlackSituationLeaderRight NowUniversalFolksWideMythDiscriminationVarietySegregationMandates Author:John Legend
“Words have consequences, and I judge people not only by their words but what they do. And if you look at people who have a pattern, who've built a career out of dividing people and who built a career out of often not just Obama but finding ways to degrade and diminish African-Americans and African-American leaders. It's racist to consistently make your living on the backs of black people.” PeopleIfsWayLooksBlackLeaderCareersJudgingFindingsConsequenceBuiltPatternsAfrican AmericanRacistBlack PeopleConsistentlyDiminishLiving OnDegradeDividing Author:Joan Walsh Anglund
“It's no accident that most of the great black spokespersons and leaders understood the centrality of self-affirmation, self-respect and self-love.” SelfBlackLeaderSelf LoveUnderstoodAccidentsSelf RespectAffirmationSelf Affirmation Author:Cornel West
“Radical militant feminist believes that women of color and Black women in particular have written the cutting edge theory and really were the individuals who exploded feminist theory into the directions that has made it more powerful. So I see us as the leaders not just of Black people and Black women in terms of feminism but in terms of the movement as a whole.” PeopleBelieveMadeWholeIndividualBlackTermPowerfulLeaderCuttingWrittenFeminismMovementParticularColorTheoryEdgesFeministMade ItRadicalBlack PeopleBlack WomenMilitantCutting EdgeFeminist Theory Author:Bell Hooks
“Black Bolt is typically a stoic leader, part of a larger cast of Inhumans who get their hands dirty in ways that he doesn’t.” WayHandsBlackLeaderCastsDirtyBoltsStoic Author:Charles Soule
“We have seen an unprecedented gathering of the leaders of black America coming together to speak with one voice, ... The whole spectrum of black thought was represented on this stage ... . This tells us that a new day is dawning in America.” WholeTogetherAmericaSpeakBlackVoiceLeaderStageGatheringSpectrumNew DayUnprecedentedComing TogetherBlack America Author:Louis Farrakhan
“Every person that steps up and commits to social change helps solidify the black movement cause. It is not easy for those who fill in the leader role.” PersonsHelpingSocialCausesEasyBlackLeaderStepsRolesMovementCommitSocial ChangeStep Up Author:Assata Shakur
“We [Black people] have always used our creativity to battle and we're not the only ones. Black Americans are certainly leaders in that simply because we were denied education and dealt with enforced illiteracy. But people seem to always forget that literacy is not the only way of learning things or conveying knowledge.” PeopleWaySeemsUsedBlackForgetLeaderCreativityBattleBlack PeopleDeniedLiteracyIlliteracyConveying Author:Nikki Giovanni
“Our leaders were assassinated, one of the things I was reading today was - 28 Panthers were killed by the police but 300 Black Panthers were killed by other Panthers just within - internecine warfare. It just began to seem like we were in an impossible task given what we were facing.” SeemsTodayReadingGivenBlackLeaderImpossibleTasksPoliceWarfarePanthersBlack Panther Author:Angela Davis
“I can't tell Black people to fight a war that is Israel's war. What kind of leader will you be, or should I be, to allow these babies Black, white and brown, to fight Israel's war, because Zionists dominate the government of the United States of America and her banking system.” PeopleShouldKindI CanWarStatesGovernmentAmericaReligionFightingBlackChurchReligiousWhiteUnitedLeaderChristianityUnited StatesBabyConstitutionIsraelSeparationBrownBlack PeopleFoundersShould ISecularUnited States Of AmericaFoundingBankingChurch And StateSeparation Of Church And StateOur Founding FathersReligious FreedomWar On DrugsFounding Fathers ChristianState GovernmentZionistUs Founding FathersBigotsBearing ArmsFounding Fathers ReligionSeparation Between Church And StateFounding Fathers ReligiousChristian ChurchConstitution Of The United StatesFounding Fathers Anti ReligionFounding Fathers Of AmericaFounding AmericaFounding Fathers AtheistDeismBlack WhiteBanking SystemChristianity From Founding FathersChristian AtheistReligion ChristianChristian FatherUnited States GovernmentChristian HeritageUs ConstitutionFounding Fathers DemocracyReligion And GovernmentChristian RightGod DelusionAmendment 1Pledge Of AllegianceDeistGod And CountryReligious BigotryGod We TrustSecular SocietyHate ReligionChristianity And Government Author:Louis Farrakhan
“President Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement. He had the opportunity to go to some of the best schools in this country - schools that train you how to run the political paradigm, not challenge it. The leaders of the Black Power Movement were challenging that paradigm.” MenCountryRunningSchoolPoliticalCertainOpportunityBlackPresidentChallengesLeaderRightsMovementAdvantageTrainCivil RightsPresident ObamaParadigmCivil Rights MovementBlack PowerBest School Author:Danny Glover
“Black Mask is new money. He's rich. He's very, very powerful. He's made it. He's known for being brutal and sadistic. And particularly at this point in the Arkham franchise he has enormous resources. He is the number one gang leader in Gotham. And has easily the most power in the city.” MadeBlackPowerfulNumbersCitiesKnownLeaderRichResourcesEnormousMade ItMaskBrutalGangVery PowerfulSadisticGotham Author:Eric Holmes