Runoko Rashidi Quotes

#1. There is a place in America for diversity of views and opinions. I may cook my gumbo differently from you, but that does not make mine better. I may just use different ingredients. Politics has gotten so spicy, and we need to cool it down some. We may find that your recipe for gumbo is just as good.

Donna Brazile

#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. The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on
because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.

Noam Chomsky

#5. Choices and consequences. Choices and consequences.

Tan Redding

#6. What you look at, you change.

Terry Pratchett

#7. Exploring the different avenues and being open to synchronicity and crazy coincidences and little things happening is part of going on your journey to investigate - and the little jewels you might find along the way, my job is to bring those back home and put them on my album.

Bat For Lashes

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

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

Runoko Rashidi

#11. There is a way to bring peace and harmony to yourself even in the most difficult of times.

Harold Klemp

#12. I started using film as part of live theatre performance - what used to be called performance art - and I became intrigued by film.

Mike Figgis