THE REAL TALK

"I freed thousands of slaves. I could have freed thousands more if they had known they were slaves."
Mama Harriet Tubman

"The events which transpired five thousand years ago; Five years ago or five minutes ago, have determined what will happen five minutes from now; five years From now or five thousand years from now. All history is a current event."
Dr. John Henrik Clarke

"STAY FOCUS"
Queen Mother Moore

"A Winchester Rifle should have a place of honor in every
[African-American] home."
Ida B. Wells-Barnett

"No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow."
Alice Walker

"First, my people must be taught the knowledge of self. Then and only then will they be able to understand others and that which surrounds them. Anyone who does not have a knowledge of self is considered a victim of either amnesia or unconsciousness and is not very competent. The lack of knowledge of self is a prevailing condition among my people here in America. Gaining the knowledge of self makes us unite into a great unity. Knowledge of self makes you take on the great virtue of learning."
Honorable Elijah Muhammad

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blow, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."
Frederick Douglass

"African-Americans have not yet learn that no other people have continued worshipping another's God, especially their slave master's god or gods and freed themselves from cultural and physical genocide. Why should Africans and African-Americans be the only exception to this historic reality?"
Dr. Ben

"Freedom is to come to the Negro, not as a bequest, but as a conquest."
Carter G. Woodson

"Judaism, Christianity & Islam are innovations on fragments from the periphery of the African cultural and spiritual system."
Professor James Small

"Whoever controls the images, controls your self-esteem, self-respect and self-development. Whoever controls the history, controls the vision."
Dr. Leonard Jeffries

"The thing to do is to get organized; keep separated and you will be exploited, you will be robbed, you will be killed. Get organized and you will compel the world to respect you."
Marcus Garvey

"Remain separated and you will suffer; Together we are invincible !"
Haywood Barber, Sr.

"A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Those who seek temporary security rather than basic liberty deserve neither...
Queen Mother Moore


"Sure there are a few good whites just as much as there are a few bad Blacks. However what we are concerned here with is group attitudes and group politics. The exception does not make a lie or the rule - it merely substantiates it."
Steve Biko

"I started with this idea in my head, "there's two things I've got a right to....death or liberty?."
Mama Harriet Tubman

"You're not an African because you're born in Africa. You're an African because Africa is born in you. It's in your genes.... your DNA....your entire biological make up. Whether you like it or not, that's the way it is. However, if you were to embrace this truth with open arms....my, my, my....what a wonderful thing."
Marimba Ani

"To illuminate our real African History, to clarify our African Present, to brilliantly project our African Future."
Mama Kefa Nephthys

"Truth crush to earth will rise again stronger than ever."
Dr. Leonard Jeffries

"I'm not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner. Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner."
Malcolm X

"Ignore the ignorance of the ignorant"
Unknown

"What Black Consciousness seeks to do is to produce at the output end of the process real Black people who do not regard themselves as appendages to white society."
Steve Biko

"I grew up like a neglected weed, ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. Now that I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is."
Mama Harriet Tubman

"Two wrongs don't make a right....but it makes things even."
Lana "Isis" Drakes

"The only protection against injustice in man is power.....physical, financial and scientific."
Marcus Garvey

"Win or lose, we win by raising the issues."
Charlotta Bass

"The most disastrous aspect of colonization which you are the most relunctant to release from your mind is their colonization of the image of God."
Dr. Frances Cress-Welsing

"Peace if possible, War if necessary."
Dr. Khallid A. Muhammad

"My bones are tired. Not tired of struggling, but tired of oppression."
Queen Mother Moore

"Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today."
Malcolm X

"Powerful people never educate powerless people in what they need that they can use to take the power away from powerful people; it's too much to expect. If I was in power, I would not educate people in how to take my powers away."
Dr. John Henrik Clarke