Quotes About Black Consciousness

#1. In all fields black consciousness seeks to talk to the black man in a language that is his own

Steven Biko

#2. Black Consciousness seeks to infuse the black community with a new-found pride in themselves, their efforts, their value systems, their culture, their religion and their outlook to life.

Steven Biko

#3. Black Consciousness therefore takes cognizance of the deliberateness of God's plan in creating Black people black.

Steven Biko

#4. Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.

Steven Biko

#5. Part of the approach envisaged in bringing about Black Consciousness has to be directed to the past, to seek to rewrite the history of the black man and to produce in it the heroes who form the core of the African background

Steven Biko

#6. The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity.

Steven Biko

#7. In grammar school some of the girls had problems with me. My face was too light. My hair was too long. It was the black-consciousness period, and I felt really bad.

Whitney Houston

#8. Black Consciousness is in essence the realization by the black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of their oppression.

Steve Biko

#9. Her voice was like a line from an old black-and-white Jean-Luc Godard movie, filtering in just beyond the frame of my consciousness.

Haruki Murakami

#10. Those who are without compassion cannot see what is seen with the eyes of compassion.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#11. I who have gone the gamut from an almost angry rejection of my dark skin by some of my brainwashed brothers and sisters to a surprised queenhood in the new Black sunam qualified to enter at least the kindergarten of new consciousness now ... I have hopes for myself.

Gwendolyn Brooks

#12. Not an impossible task, just an outrageous challenge.

Richard Roberts

#13. Whereas I, even now, persist in believing that these black marks on white paper bear the greatest significance, that if I keep writing I might be able to catch the rainbow of consciousness in a jar.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#14. As your consciousness, refinement and pureness of heart expands you will become less judgmental, less corrective, less reactive, less black-and-white, less critical, less apt to blame and less tormented by others and their faults and views.

Bryant McGill

#15. Ascent of the rapist up the stairs seems as slow as lava. She listens to the black space where his consciousness is, moving towards her.

Anne Carson

#16. Although her hearing was excellent, she had that gift of temporary deafness that is granted to so few.

Tom Holt

#17. We tend to misunderstand the colour black, seeing it as evil, or negation of life. Rather, black means all things being possible, infinite energy of life before consciousness has constructed any boundaries. When we fear blackness or darkness we fear the deep unconscious source of life itself.

Rachel Pollack

#18. The way black women say "girl" can be magical. Frankly, I have no solid beliefs about the survival of consciousness after physical death. But if it's going to happen I know what I want to see after my trek toward the light. I want to see a black woman who will smile and say, "Girl ...

Abigail Padgett

#19. they read Hurston not only for the spiritual kinship inherent in such relations but because she used black vernacular speech and rituals, in ways Subtle and various, to chart the coming to consciousness of black women, so glaringly absent in other black fiction.

Zora Neale Hurston

#20. Fact-checking doesn't exist primarily because some of us are liars and cheats. It exists because writers will be writers, much as they may mean to be historians.

Alice Dreger

#21. I find it difficult to say I'm black first and a woman second or vice versa. I can't make that kind of distinction. Amongst Aboriginal women I do my best to raise their consciousness both as women and as Aboriginals.

Pat O'Shane

#22. I could be worried about it if I had the wrong attitude. I don't think that I want my life and my daily occurrences to influence the direction. I don't want my daily life or my happiness to be a direct influence on music or my sadness.

Justin Vernon

#23. One can never "fall" in love, you must rise to it's level of consciousness. Love is not a feeling, it's a state of MIND!

T.C. Carrier

#24. When yu say nasty things about people, you shouldnever say the true ones, because you can't really fully and honest take those back...

John Green

#25. We live
in the small
spaces
between
our words

hiding
between
the said

and all
we cannot
say.

Lauren Eden

#26. Ashley to marry Melanie Hamilton! Oh, it couldn't be true!

Margaret Mitchell

#27. For the most part I write very stream of consciousness. I basically need to be recording an entire writing session because it's almost like I black out and just start singing whatever is on my mind and forget it as soon as I stop.

Beth Moore

#28. [ ... ] The negative turned positive, black misery sublimated into heightened consciousness, suffering into solidarity!

Kang Chol-Hwan

#29. When I die, the consciousness I carry I will to black people./May they pick me apart and take the useful parts, the sweet meat of my feelings./And leave the bitter bullshit rotten white parts alone.

Amiri Baraka

#30. In the infinite black space of ignorance, it is as if stands as the basic operation of cognition, the mark perhaps of consciousness itself. Human

Kim Stanley Robinson

#31. The fish does not know it is wet. America is immersed in violence. The violence is in our souls. The enemy is within.

Bryant McGill

#32. And her stare is a force I feel could shock my system like a defibrillator, restarting my heart.

Sarah Noffke

#33. Science has proved that everything is energy, and now they have dark energy, dark matter. They don't call it all-embracing consciousness; they call it dark because they can't measure it. You know, paint it black.

Dave Davies

#34. God, come down, if you're really there -
Well, you're the one who claims to care!

Morrissey

#35. The power of speech does not rely upon meaning. Words carry energy all by themselves. They vibrate through the air, with the intention of the speaker, shaping consciousness and touching hearts whether understood or not.

Daniel Black

#36. I always tell my students that Malcolm X came both to his spirituality and to his consciousness as a thinker when he had solitude to read. Unfortunately, tragically, like so many young black males, that solitude only came in prison.

Bell Hooks

#37. Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.

Jasper Fforde

#38. From what black wells of Acherontic fear or feeling, from what unplumbed gulfs of extra-cosmic consciousness or obscure, long-latent heredity, were those half-articulate thunder-croakings drawn?

H.P. Lovecraft

#39. The institutionalization of Black Studies, Feminist Studies, all of these things, led to a sense that the struggle was over for a lot of people and that one did not have to continue the personal consciousness-raising and changing of one's viewpoint.

Bell Hooks

#40. I want everyone to feel as much as possible as if they inhabit the same space. They more fluid the relationship between actor and audience, the better.

Christine Jones