“As a black person I am no stranger to prejudice. But the truth is that in the political world I have been far more often discriminated against because I am a woman than because I am black.” WorldPersonsHas BeensPoliticalBlackTruth IsPrejudiceStrangerBlack Person Author:Shirley Chisholm
“What is this Charity, this clinking of money between strangers, and when did Charity cease to be a comforting and secret thing between one friend and another? Does Love make her voice heard through a committee, does Love employ an almoner to convey her message to her neighbor? ... The real Love knows her neighbor face to face, and laughs with him and weeps with him, and eats and drinks with him, so that at last, when his black day dawns, she may share with him, not what she can spare, but all that she has.” KnowsMayDoeRealLastsFacesBlackVoiceSecretLaughingHeardShareDrinkMessagesCharityStrangerNeighborCeaseDawnReal LoveSparesCommitteesComfortingFace To FaceOne FriendBlack Day Book:Living Alone Source: Living Alone
“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.” IfsWorldFeelsSelfBlackWhiteExistenceIllusionFundamentalsStructureStrangerFabricDeep DownFlukesProbation Author:Alan Watts
“Each day when you see us black folk upon the dusty land of your farm or upon the hard pavement of your city streets, you usually take it for granted and think you know us, but our history is far stranger than you suspect, and we are not what we seem.” ThinkingKnowsHardSeemsBlackJusticeCitiesStreetsLandDiversitySocial JusticeFolksStrangerGrantedEach DaySuspectsFarmsPavementCity Streets Author:Richard Wright