“It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of my own people became a hunger for the freedom of all people, white and black. I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed.” PeopleYearsWellsLongBlackMy OwnWhiteLonelyHungerOppressedLiberatedOppressorsLong Walk To Freedom Book:Long Walk To Freedom Source: Long Walk To Freedom
“I went into my own black-out period which lasted two or three years where the canvases would simply build up until they'd get like stone and it was always just a gray mess. The image wouldn't emerge, but I worked pretty regularly. I was fighting to find I knew not what, but I could no longer stay with what I had.” YearsTwoFightingThreeBlackMy OwnPeriodsStonesMessGrayThree Years Author:Lee Krasner
“All I did in Chicago was to exercise my legal right to speak on my own behalf and I was given four years in jail as a result. But I think the most serious injustice perpetrated by the court system in America is the inability of a black man to get a jury of his peers.” ThinkingMenYearsAmericaSpeakGivenBlackMy OwnResultsFourSeriousExerciseCourtInjusticeJailChicagoFour YearsPeersBehalfInabilityJuryCourt System Author:Bobby Seale
“I think everything happens for a reason and all of my choices have led me up to my solo album and made me stronger, not only as an artist but as a person. I want to do more the Black Eyed Peas albums and more of my own albums. I'm in this for the long run.” ThinkingWantPersonsLongMadeReasonHappensRunningArtistChoicesBlackMy OwnStrongerAlbumsThings HappenLong RunsSoloEverything Happens For A ReasonPeasHappens For A ReasonBlack Eyed Peas Author:Fergie
“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