Afrodescendant

“Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out.”

“Love is man's natural endowment, but he doesn't know how to use it. He refuses to recognize the power of love because of his love of power.”

“The older the moon, the brighter it shines. The older the clock, the faster it winds.”

“Behave like the chameleon: look forward and observe behind.” 

"Our color is resistance, our history is resistance."

“If a fish emerges from a river bottom warning of an hungry alligator down there, believe him.” 

“An educator in a system of oppression is either a revolutionary or an oppressor.” 

“Somehow we are going to have to develop a concept of ‘enough’ …so that the necessities of the many are not sacrificed for the luxury of the few.”  

“Maybe our forefathers couldn’t keep their language together when they were taken from Africa, but this, the blues, was a language we invented to let people know we have something to say.”