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Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

The most disrespected person in America is the black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the black woman. The most neglected person in America is the black woman.

We’ve all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That’s who we really are.

I don’t stand for the black man’s side, I don’t stand for the white man’s side. I stand for God’s side.

We are the ones we have been waiting for.

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man’s right to his body, or woman’s right to her soul.

When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

I think we must never, ever demonize one another. That’s true not just black people to black people; that’s human being to human being.

Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Black! Black! Black! I am proud of being a Negro. Nor have I ever tried to beg tolerance from anyone. Superiority is not proved by color, but by the brain, by education, by willpower, by moral courage.

The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself – the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us – that’s where it’s at.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.

An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us.

Black culture is cool, but black issues sure aren’t, huh?

The white man discovered the Cross by way of the Bible, but the black man discovered the Bible by way of the Cross.

There’s so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I’ve got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father – and how come that’s not as newsworthy?

Nothing in the world is easier in the United States than to accuse a black man of crime.

I believe in freedom for everyone, not just the black man.

Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.

The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power-and no one holds power forever.

It’s an odd thing, happiness. Some people take happiness from gold. Or black pearls. And some of us, far more fortunate, take their happiness from periwinkles.

An enlightened society is one where all people – the rich and the poor, the literate and the illiterate, the black and the white, men and women – live happily as children of the same Lord. Thus experiencing the brotherhood of men under the fatherhood of God.

When I was at Baylor, I wasn’t fully happy because I couldn’t be all the way out. It feels so good saying it: I am a strong, black lesbian woman.

Escape from the black cloud that surrounds you. Then you will see your own light as radiant as the full moon.

The world is a severe schoolmaster, for its frowns are less dangerous than its smiles and flatteries, and it is a difficult task to keep in the path of wisdom.

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

I am a strong, black lesbian woman. Every single time I say it, I feel so much better.

Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they’re so frightfully clever. I’m awfully glad I’m a Beta, because I don’t work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don’t want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They’re too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly color. I’m so glad I’m a Beta.