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“By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may construct new values, new institutions and new visions of an America beyond traditional racial categories and racial oppression.”

Source: Beyond Black and White: Transforming African-American Politics

“Our success in America will involve two circles: Black Nationalism and Islam–it will take BN [Black Nationalism] to make our people conscious of doing for self & then Islam will provide the spiritual guidance. BN [Black Nationalism] will link us to Africa and Islam will link us spiritually to Africa, Arabia & Asia.”

People Two Self America Spiritual Black Conscious Islam Circles Guidance Nationalism Links Asia Arabia Spiritual Guidance Black Nationalism

Author:Malcolm X

“When painters feel the need to make a shift toward self-discovery, they turn to black and white for a time.”

Needs Feels Self Turns Black White Discovery Self Discovery Painter Black And White

Author:Barnett Newman

“Go to work! Go to work in the morn of a new creation... until you have... reached the height of self-progress, and from that pinnacle bestow upon the world a civilization of your own.”

World Self Black Progress Creation Civilization Height Black History Pinnacle

Book:The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Vol. V: September 1922-August 1924

Source: The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Vol. V: September 1922-August 1924

“Commitments present themselves in delineations of black and white. You either honor your commitments or you don't. Success is the result of making and keeping commitments to your self and others, while all failed or unfinished goals, projects and relationships are the direct result of broken commitments. It's that simple, that profound, and that important.”

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Author:Gary Ryan

“Hypocrisy versus authenticity among men is not always so black and white, and as is righteousness, humility is often self-proclaimed. The Church is most definitely supposed to be a hospital for the spiritually, emotionally, mentally, and physically sick, hurting, and broken individual, yet ironically, many of its critics are those who ran away and permanently denounced its members after they visited and felt that they were sneezed on.”

Men Self Individual Felt Black Hurt Church White Humility Broken Members Sick Critics Authenticity Supposed To Be Ran Hypocrisy Righteousness Hospitals Black And White Versus

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“To those who feel that their values are THE values, the less controlled systems necessarily present a spectacle of "chaos," simply because such systems respond to a diversity of values. The more successfully such systems respond to diversity, the more "chaos" there will be, by definition, according to the standards of ANY specific set of values- other than diversity or freedom as values. Looked at another way, the more self-righteous observers there are, the more chaos (and "waste") will be seen.”

Way Feels Self Values Black Waste Diversity Standards Chaos Definitions Controlled Righteous Observers Another Way Self Righteous

Author:Thomas Sowell

“To counter the fixation on a rhetoric of victimhood, black folks must engage in a discourse of self-determination.”

Self Black Determination Folks Self Determination Rhetoric Discourse Victimhood Fixation

Author:Bell Hooks

“And here come the Left Brothers - Al "747" Sharpton and Jesse "DC 10" Jackson - barreling in for a landing on top of Goodell's dome. And this time every black person with an ounce of common sense and self-respect is riding shotgun with Jesse and Al, who have justifiably voiced their displeasure with Limbaugh's ownership bid.”

Persons Self Left Black Common Brother Common Sense Self Respect Als Riding Ownership Landing Domes Black Person Shotguns Displeasure

Author:Jason Whitlock

“A lot of people, black, white, mexican, young or old, fat or skinny have a problem being true to they self. They have a problem looking in the mirror and looking directly into their own souls. Only reason I am who I am today is because I can look directly into my face and find my soul”

“The system knows how to cherry pick black people. It's like affirmative action - once a year, one is recognized. But what has to occur is self-emergence so if they ignore you, you don't have to disappear.”

People Ifs Knows Years Self Action Black Know How Picks Disappear Black People Cherries Emergence Affirmative Action Affirmative Year One

Author:Haile Gerima

“As a Black lesbian feminist comfortable with the many different ingredients of my identity, and a woman committed to racial and sexual freedom from oppression, I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self. But this is a destructive and fragmenting way to live.”

Way Different Self Whole Black Identity Acceptance Comfortable Aspect Committed Feminist Sexuality Meaningful Oppression Destructive Ingredients Way To Live Pluck

Author:Audre Lorde

“The Black Panther party of Self-Defense is a revolutionary party.”

Self Black Party Defense Revolutionary Self Defense Panthers Black Panther Black Panther Party

Author:Bobby Seale

“I have some notions that have people conceiving of themselves as capable of changing the world. That's why, for me, the issues of self-love, self-respect and self-regard are preconditions for human agency and especially black agency, given the fact that we have been and are such a hated and despised people.”

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Author:Cornel West

“It's no accident that most of the great black spokespersons and leaders understood the centrality of self-affirmation, self-respect and self-love.”

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Author:Cornel West

“The black church often has reinforced certain self images that are damaging to black peoples' beauty, black peoples' confidence.”

Self Certain Black Church Black People Black Church

Author:Cornel West

“The most dangerous thing in American society is a self-respecting and self-loving black person, because they're on the road to freedom and that means they're gonna run up against the powers that be.”

Mean Persons Self Running Black Dangerous Dangerous Things American Society Black Person Self Loving

Author:Cornel West

“Music is the very cement that has not just held the black community together but holds black selves together in a fundamental sense.”

Self Together Black Community Music Is Fundamentals Cement Black Community

Author:Cornel West

“Love yourself. Just love yourself. In fact, the love of the self cures every kind of problem you have with yourself. For instance, if someone calls you nappy-headed, it rolls right off your body, if you love nappy hair. Or if someone calls you buck-toothed or too black, that won't be a problem if you love being buck-toothed or black. If you love it, then so what. The development of self-love cures many of the ills that people suffer from.”

People Ifs Kind Self Facts Problem Body Suffering Black Love Is Love You Hair Development Self Love Your Body Cures Instance Love Yourself Bucks Just Love Yourself Nappies

Author:Alice Walker

“The two greatest enemies of the individual in the modern world are communism and psychiatry. Each wages a relentless war against that which makes a person an individual: communism against the ownership of property, psychiatry against the ownership of the self (mind and body). Communists criminalize the autonomous use of capital and labor, and harshly punish those who "traffic" in the black market, especially in foreign currencies. Psychiatrists criminalize the autonomous use of the self, and harshly punish those who "traffic" in self-abuse, especially in self-medication and self-destruction.”

Source: The Untamed Tongue: A Dissenting Dictionary

“Adolescents' immature thinking makes it difficult for them to process the divorce. They tend to see things in black-and-white terms and have trouble putting events into perspective. They are absolute in their judgments and expect perfection in parents. They are likely to be self-conscious about their parent's failures and critical of their every move. They have the expectations that parents will keep them safe and happy and are shocked by the broken covenant. Adolescents are unforgiving.”

Source: Reviving Ophelia

“As blacks, we need not be afraid that encouraging moral development, a conscience and guilt will prevent social action. Black children without the ability to feel a normal amount of guilt will victimize their parents, relatives and community first. They are unlikely to be involved in social action to improve the black community. Their self-centered personalities will cause them to look out for themselves without concern for others, black or white.”

“. . . black women . . . are trained from childhood to become workers, and expect to be financially self-supporting for most of their lives. They know they will have to work, whether they are married or single; work to them, unlike to white women, is not a liberating goal, but rather an imposed lifelong necessity.”

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Author:Gerda Lerner

“If you awaken from this illusion, and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death - or shall I say, death implies life - you can conceive yourself. Not conceive, but feel yourself, not as a stranger in the world, not as someone here on sufferance, on probation, not as something that has arrived here by fluke, but you can begin to feel your own existence as absolutely fundamental. What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.”

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Author:Alan Watts

“Obama sees the world in two ways: from the black perspective and from the white perspective. He was raised as a black man, whose culture he has self-consciously adopted. But he was reared largely by his white grandparents. He lived a kind of racially bipartisan experience, and he will be able to speak a language that resonates with both communities.”

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Author:Michael Eric Dyson

“Such techniques, including meta-discursive stuff, self-reference, irony, black humor, cynicism, grotesquerie and shock, it would be safe to say that television or televisual values rule the culture. Television is successfully using a lot of those same techniques but using them for a very different agenda, which is to sort of create an ethos and please people and to sell products to consumers.”

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Author:David Foster Wallace

“In my opinion while lynchings were quite possibly the most heinous crimes ever witnessed in American history, they helped in bringing people together for a sole purpose. It was because of these lynchings that armed self-resistance was created. If white people knew black people were capable of fighting back then there was less of a chance that violence actually would break out.”

“In order for me to engage in a revolutionary struggle for collective Black self-determination, I have to engage feminism because that becomes the vehicle by which I project myself as a female into the heart of the struggle, but the heart of the struggle does not begin with feminism. It begins with an understanding of domination and with a critique of domination in all its forms.”

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Author:Bell Hooks

“Because of its exceptional capacity for self-criticism, the West took the initiative in abolishing slavery; the calls for abolition did not resonate even in black Africa, where rival African tribes took black prisoners to be sold as slaves in the West.”

Self Black Capacity Criticism Slavery Slave West Prisoner Initiative Tribes Exceptional Rivals Abolition Self Criticism African Tribes Abolishing Slavery

Author:Ibn Warraq

“There's a lot of movies about self absorbed white men and I just figured it's about time to make a movie about self absorbed black men.”

Men Self Black White White Man Self Absorbed

Author:Neil Drumming

“I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.”

People Thinking Needs Self Black Self Esteem Esteem Black People

Author:Bell Hooks

“But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is. If you awaken from this illusion, and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death - or shall I say, death implies life - you can conceive yourself.”

Ifs Self Black White Illusion Rate

Author:Alan Watts

“We must stand up and say, "I'm black and I'm beautiful," and this self-affirmation is the black man's need, made compelling by the white man's crimes against him.”

Men Needs Made Self Beautiful Black White Crime Compelling Affirmation White Man Self Affirmation

Book:The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

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