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10 DAYS OF BLACK TRUTHS “We need to take a moment and celebrate this historic achievement. CNN won't cover this; FOX News definitely has no interest. If we do not begin to share our own stories, uplift and elevate our own accomplishments, then we are destined to continually see reruns of "Good Times", Ignorant and Vile Rappers, denigrating reality shows and numerous other skewed portrayals of modern era Black Identity, further narrowing the perceptions of African Americans as the disproportionate exhibitors of least desirable behaviors in this society. “

Janks Morton



10 DAYS OF BLACK TRUTHS

“American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen.”

Toni Morrison




“You never find yourself until you face the truth.”

Pearl Bailey



10 DAYS OF BLACK TRUTHS “If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves and allow those responsible to salve their conscience by believing that they have our acceptance and concurrence. We should, therefore, protest openly everything . . . that smacks of discrimination or slander.” Mary McLeod Bethune




“Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.”

Carol Moseley-Braun




“You wonder and you wonder until you wander out into Infinity, where - if it is to be found anywhere - Truth really exists.”

Marita Bonner




“You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.” Frederick Douglass



10 DAYS OF BLACK TRUTHS “It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others. . . . One ever feels his twoness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warrings ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.”

W.E.B. Du Bois




“Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains.”

Carter G. Woodson




“If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.”

Nikki Giovanni




“Sometimes it seems like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off.”

Fannie Lou Hamer




“When I found I had crossed that line, [on her first escape from slavery, 1845] I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.”

Harriet Tubman




“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”

Martin Luther King




“I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against.”

Malcolm X




“Truth burns up error.”

Sojourner Truth



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