“There is a man who exists as one of the most popular objects of leadership, legislation, and quasi-literature in the history of all men. . . . This man, that object of attention, attack, and vast activity, cannot make himself be heard, let alone understood. He has never been listened to. . . . That man is Black and alive in white America where the media of communication do not allow the delivery of his own voice, his own desires, his own rage.” MenAmericaDesireLiteratureBlackVoiceWhiteAttentionAliveHeardMediaObjectsCommunicationActivityUnderstoodRageLegislationDelivery Author:June Jordan
“The trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans. I say, the trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans.” BlackUnderstoodMars Book:Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems Source: Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems
“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
“I maintain that any writer of a book is fully authorised in attaching any meaning he likes to a word or phrase he intends to use. If I find an author saying, at the beginning of his book, "Let it be understood that by the word 'black' I shall always mean 'white,' and by the word 'white' I shall always mean 'black,'" I meekly accept his ruling, however injudicious I think it.” IfsThinkingMeanBookUseBlackWhiteAcceptingUnderstoodLikesPhrasesRuling Book:Symbolic Logic: Elementary Source: Symbolic Logic: Elementary
“My own sense of the world is that very little is absolute or black and white or easily understood. I suppose in all my writing I'm trying to cast the reader into this spiritually ambivalent dream world, which hopefully mirrors more honestly the complex reality we find ourselves in.” WorldWritingTryingLittlesDreamRealityBlackMy OwnWhiteReaderUnderstoodAbsolutesMirrorsComplexesCastsHonestlyHopefullyBlack And WhiteDream WorldAmbivalent Author:Andre Dubus