“If you look at the true essence of the Black Panthers, they were more of a community protection group.” IfsLooksBlackCommunityGroupsEssenceProtectionPanthersBlack Panther Author:Anthony Mackie
“None of us were prepared to hear what Justice Scalia said, because in essence what he was saying is let`s go back to pre-Board of Education - Brown versus Board of Education, 1950s America where blacks are doing all right going to black schools or schools where blacks go. He said go to less advanced schools where they do all right. We`re going back to separate but equal.” SaidSchoolAmericaBlackJusticeEqualEssencePreparedBoardsBrownVersusBoard Of EducationSeparate But EqualJustice Scalia Author:Chris Hayes
“I believe that the essence of photography is black and white. Color is but a deviance.” BelieveI BelieveBlackWhiteColorPhotographyEssenceBlack And WhiteDeviance Author:Sarah Moon
“I was raised in a beautiful Black two-parent family that has given me amazing morals to go out to make a better life for myself and others. That is who I truly am. And this show allows me to display the true essence of who I am and why I'm in this business.” TwoShowsBeautifulGivenParentBlackMoralEssenceRaisedWho I AmDisplayBetter Life Author:Eva Marcille
“I think Nouveau Gloaming is a classic black metal record and I would hate to be a band that kept trying to recapture the same essence, but failing, for the rest of its days.” ThinkingTryingHateBlackRecordsFailingBandEssenceClassicMetalsBlack MetalGloaming Author:Mat McNerney
“I always want to read something about our people's enslavement near the 4th. To keep it light, I also read Rolanda Watts' "Destiny Lingers" She is a sisterfriend and I ran into her at Essence. Then, I finished Paul Taylor's "The Next America." Taylor is the Executive VP at the Pew Research Center, and he uses their excellent data base to talk about the coming "generational showdown" which we are experiencing, at some level, in Black America.” PeopleWantUseLightAmericaNextBlackLevelsDestinyResearchEssenceFinishedDataExcellentRanExecutivesEnslavementBlack AmericaShowdowns Author:Julianne Malveaux
“Black Consciousness is in essence the realization by the black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of their oppression.” MenNeedsTogetherCausesBlackConsciousnessBrotherEssenceOppressionRealizationBlack Consciousness Author:Steven Biko
“Out of the silver heat mirage he ran. The sky burned, and under him the paving was a black mirror reflecting sun-fire. Sweat sprayed his skin with each foot strike so that he ran in a hot mist of his own creation. With each slap on the softened asphalt, his soles absorbed heat that rose through his arches and ankles and the stems of his shins. It was a carnival of pain, but he loved each stride because running distilled him to his essence and the heat hastened this distillation.” RunningPainBlackSunFireFeetSkyCreationSkinsEssenceHotMirrorsRoseStrikesRanHeatSilverSweatBurnedStemReflectingMistSlapInspirational RunningStrideAnklesArchesMiragesCarnivalsAsphaltPavingDistillation Author:James Tabor
“We've become a culture where earning money doesn't entitle you to it, but wanting it does. That is the essence of redistribution.” DoeCultureBlackEssenceEarningEarning Money Author:Ken Blackwell
“Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time. Its essence is the realisation by the black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of their oppression - the blackness of their skin - and to operate as a group to rid themselves of the shackles that bind them to perpetual servitude.” MenWorldWayNeedsMindLongTogetherCausesBlackConsciousnessAttitudeGroupsBrotherLong TimeSkinsEssenceOppressionPerpetualBlacknessServitudeRealisationShacklesEmanateBlack Consciousness Author:Steven Biko