Manning Marable Quotes

#1. People can't listen until they're ready. I sure couldn't. I was, like, deaf to everyone except the thoughts. They were the boss of me.

Teresa Toten

#2. To the cowards, change is a want; to the weak, change is a wish; but to the brave, change is a must. People who put change ahead of all things are those who make a difference!

Israelmore Ayivor

#3. The 'We Have Overcome' generation has run out of intellectual creativity but refuses to leave the political stage.

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#4. The liberal uses the radical's language to achieve the conservative's aim: the preservation of the capitalist system, and the traditional ethnic/racial hierarchy within society.

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#5. I am convinced that the Black man will only reach his full potential when he learns to draw upon the strengths and insights of the Black woman.

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#6. I trust you to do what's right. But it might not be the right thing." "It's the right thing.

C.D. Reiss

#7. By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may construct new values, new institutions and new visions of an America beyond traditional racial categories and racial oppression.

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#8. I think - I think you have a conscience growing up in a loving family with a nurturing community. And I think what happens is, and that's part of the problem of being in the closet which is a very sick place. I mean it's self loathing. It's self denial. And you keep that separate.

James McGreevey

#9. Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.

Earl Warren

#10. A curious mind is the most important attribute any man or woman can possess.

M.J. Rose

#11. I wanna make my imprint in the game as far as music - hip-hop, and just music, period. 'Cause I come from hip-hop, that's my background, but I'm not gonna let that limit me from where I can go.

Nayvadius Cash

#12. To blacks, it was abundantly clear what groups like the NAACP and CORE wanted; the NOI, by contrast and largely by design, had no clear social program that realistically could be implemented (215).

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#13. An idea accepted as true from any source can be every bit as powerful as hypnosis.

Maxwell Maltz

#14. The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.

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#15. Whiteness in a racist, corporate-controlled society is like having the image of an American Express Cardstamped on one's face: immediately you are "universally accepted."

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#16. At the heart of the fractured soul of America is the frightening chasm of race.

Manning Marable