#lack

Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being. ↗

— Steven Biko

#being #black #blackness #committed #describing

So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks. They must be made to realise that they are also human, not inferior. ↗

— Steven Biko

#blacks #human #inferior #made #must

The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity. ↗

— Steven Biko

#birth #black #consciousness #country #dignity

Black man, you are on your own. ↗

— Steven Biko

#man #own #you #your

And I guess what I would say is that we can't think narrowly about movements for black liberation and we can't necessarily see this class division as simply a product or a certain strategy that black movements have developed for liberation. ↗

— Angela Davis

#black #certain #class #developed #division

Now, if we look at the way in which the labor movement itself has evolved over the last couple of decades, we see increasing numbers of black people who are in the leadership of the labor movement and this is true today. ↗

— Angela Davis

#couple #decades #evolved #increasing #itself

In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable. ↗

— Angela Davis

#been #black #certain #certain extent #class

I'm not good enough, technically, to be a classic musician. I lack discipline. ↗

— Ritchie Blackmore

#discipline #enough #good #i #lack

Bipolar disorder, manic depression, depression, black dog, whatever you want to call it, is inherent in our society. It's a product of stress and in my case over-work. ↗

— Adam Ant

#black #call #case #depression #disorder

Illegal immigrants are beginning to comprise a black market class of workers in our society, jeopardizing the financial health of companies which play by the rules, while themselves vulnerable to the exploitation by those willing to take advantage of their illegal status. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

#beginning #black #class #companies #comprise