"Teach a child or nation that it springs from an inferior race and that is can never hope to overcome that inferiority, and you have made an obedient servant and a community of slaves."
- George Wells Parker
"They must find it difficult, those who have accepted authority as truth, rather than the truth as authority."
- Gerald Massey, Egyptologist
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery...
- Bob Marley
"Colonialism is not satisfied merely with hiding
a people in its grip and emptying the native's
brain of all form and content. By a kind of
perverted logic, it turns to the past of the
oppressed people, and distorts,
disfigures and destroys it."
- Frantz Fanon, On National Culture Colonial
Discourse and Post-colonial Theory
"Three things cannot be hidden for long:
the sun, the moon, and the truth."
- HoneyB
"To manipulate an image is to control
a peoplehood. Zero image has for a long
time meant the repression of our peoplehood."
- Carolyn Gerald
"My people are destroyed for lack of
knowledge: because thou hast rejected
knowledge, I will also reject thee, that
thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou
hast forgotten the law of thy God,
I will also forget thy children."
- Hosea 4:6.
"In my music, my plays, my films, I want
to carry always this central idea:
to be African."
- Paul Robeson, Activist, Actor and Singer
