Rashidi Quotes

#1. Fighting [in defence] is ordained for you, abhorrent as it may be to you. You may dislike something although it is good for you, or like something although it is bad for you: God knows but you do not.

Anonymous

#2. History is a light that illuminates the past,
and a key that unlocks the door to the future.

Runoko Rashidi

#3. As a strong and proud and intelligent Black man I have no problem expressing my respect for and adoration of the Black woman. Simply put, I love you. I love the Black woman.

Runoko Rashidi

#4. I asked her who would teach me about life being unfair. She said time.

Yasmine El Rashidi

#5. Baba always used to say that as we age, things change, we become more rigid, and then eventually, most of us, become forgiving again. He called it the cycle of life.

Yasmine El Rashidi

#6. People sometimes don't like organized situations. Sometimes people need to be left alone more. Sometimes people need environmental support.

Sakyong Mipham

#7. Perhaps the biggest obstacle in destroying white supremacy is the hatred and hostility that Africans have for each other.

Runoko Rashidi

#8. When you have a dream and someone makes promises they keep breaking, it is hard to recover. You lose hope.

Yasmine El Rashidi

#9. If the Black woman is a queen, and I believe that she is, why would I settle for something less than royal?

Runoko Rashidi

#10. The strength of democratic societies relies on their capacity to know how to stand firm against extremism while respecting justice in the means used to fight terrorism.

Tariq Ramadan

#11. Black men should be with Black women. And they should love and honor them.

Runoko Rashidi

#12. I think style is very different from fashion. Fashion was what I went after when I was feeling incredibly insecure and monstrous on the inside.

Stacy London

#13. The world is divided into two kinds of people, those who spend a great deal of time saving money, and those who spend a great deal of money saving time.

Peter Cochrane