Black Activism Quotes

#1. There is no gay leader anywhere near the stature of Martin Luther King, because black activism drew on the profound spiritual tradition of the church, to which gay political rhetoric is childishly hostile.

Camille Paglia

#2. My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.

Bayard Rustin

#3. As the lad himself might say, cut my legs off and call me Shorty! Elvis Presley can act ... Acting is his assignment in this shrewdly upholstered showcase, and he does it.

Howard Thompson

#4. Practice. I used to sit on the edge of my bed with a six-pack of Tuborg. My brother would go out to party and get laid, come home at 3am., and I would still be playing with myself.

Eddie Van Halen

#5. My story starts with my dad, a black boy born to a single mother in a small town in North Carolina. It starts with my parents meeting in Washington, D.C., in the '60s, at a time of incredible activism.

Cory Booker

#6. My activism did not spring from being black ... The racial injustice that was present in this country during my youth was a challenge to my belief in the oneness of the human family.

Bayard Rustin

#7. It's not a problem. In four or five days I will be beautiful once again.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#8. A dream doesn't mean anything. I dreamed the other night that I went riding on a dinosaur.

Richelle Mead

#9. Role models who push us to exceed our limits, physical training that removes our spare tires, and risks that expand our sphere of comfortable action are all examples of eustress - stress that is healthful and the stimulus for growth.

Tim Ferriss

#10. Whenever I find myself in an exceptionally beautiful environment, I can't help asking myself - what lies beneath? I'm fascinated by the idea of a perfect surface concealing a rotten core.

Sharon Bolton

#11. Forget the accent, I'm a fucking American citizen, you arseholes - I know my rights. If you're going to start talking about getting violent, get a fucking cop or lawyer in here.

Christina Lauren

#12. The only good produced by the disappearance of Africville was the appearance of a conscious black nationalism ... In this regard, Consecrated Ground is the heir of fierce, vengeful, and epic activism.

George Elliott Clarke

#13. Publishers never tell writers anything. They're all crazy and they drive me crazy.

Anne Bernays

#14. In college I studied '60s and '70s radicalism, student activism, forms of political violence, groups like the Weathermen, the Black Panthers, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the New Left.

Marisha Pessl

#15. Trying to pretend to oneself that a life of constant self frustration was in fact a great spiritual attainment.

Alan W. Watts