Quotes About Black Nationalism

#1. Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.

Pearl Cleage

#2. If [black] nationalism could create a strong and effective insularity, deliver on its promise of self-respect, then the hurt it might cause well-meaning whites, or the inner turmoil it caused people like me, would be of little consequence.

Barack Obama

#3. 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

#4. When you want a nation, that's called nationalism ... Black nationalism. A revolutionary is a Black nationalist. He wants a nation.

Malcolm X

#5. The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community; no more.

Malcolm X

#6. There's not enough good things in the world.

Noel Gallagher

#7. Religion and nationalism? I defecate on the altar of religious conviction, and wipe my arse on the flag of national pride.

Ian Martin

#8. "Strong" to people means "real." It means you believe that's a person who exists, as opposed to some two-dimensional depiction of women.

Jane Fonda

#9. A dalliance with poetry before we dance.

Delano Johnson

#10. Your ego decides the humanity in you ...
Higher the ego lesser the humanity ...

Adil Adam Memon

#11. John Howard, willing to apologise to home owners for rising interest rates, would not say sorry to Aborigines. He refused to condone what he referred to as 'a black armband version' of history, preferring a jingoistic nationalism.

Richard Flanagan

#12. Somehow, it is hard to dislike a man once you have played a round of golf with him.

John Updike

#13. In the landscape of time, there are few locations less comfortable than that of one who waits for some person or event to arrive at some unknown moment in the future.

Robert Grudin

#14. These negroes aren't asking for no nation. They wanna crawl back on the plantation.

Malcolm X

#15. My mother used to make the most amazing yogurt.

Hamdi Ulukaya

#16. All things (e.g. a camel's journey through
A needle's eye) are possible, it's true.
But picture how the camel feels, squeezed out
In one long bloody thread, from tail to snout.

C.S. Lewis

#17. During the whole campaign, from June 27 to July 31, there has been no shirking or hesitation, to tiring on the part of a single man so far as I have seen; the brigade commanders reported none.

John Buford

#18. Hazel shuddered, remembering her close call with Don that afternoon. If she hadn't moved quickly and snatched that diamond off the road ... She didn't want to think about it. She didn't need another death on her conscience.

Rick Riordan

#19. So many people are looking at what's wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what's right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

Joel Osteen

#20. The poet is always our contemporary.

Virginia Woolf

#21. Any ministry to black people which is not designed to effect their empowerment is designed to perpetuate their enslavement.

Albert B. Cleage Jr.

#22. It was a mission of celebration: never had two Mexican-Americans flown up in space on the same mission, and never did burritos shine so brightly.

Gustavo Arellano

#23. No, there is plenty wrong with Negroes. They have no society. They're robots, automatons. No minds of their own. I hate to say that about us, but it's the truth. They are a black body with a white brain.

Malcolm X