“The police knocked down my door and took everything. They took my underwear!”— Assata Shakur, youtube.com
“Oppression is one of the most frequent tools used by The United States government used to smash anybody that is fighting for real justice.”— Assata Shakur, youtube.com
“Listen he says to the way I’ll never kiss you again. Whistle of a train breaking from the floorboards, music of wet cement, sweet Black and Mild through a vent, and this is not the end, but it is almost the end. The something still to be done. The pruning of shrubs. Do anything. Please.”— Michelle Dominique Burk, narrativemagazine.com
“I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.”— Bessie Coleman, supanet.com
“I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.”— June Jordan, amazon.com