BLM Quotes
The purpose of this page is to find wisdom and inspiration through these truthful quotes on black lives.
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Marian Anderson
“No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger than its weakest people, and as long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you might otherwise.”
Ava Duvernay
“I’m interested in the lives of Black folk as a subject. Not the predicate, not the tangent. These stories deserve to be told— not as sociology, not as spectacle, not as a singular event that happens every so often– but regularly and purposefully as truth and as art on an ongoing basis.”
Maya Angelou
“Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.”
James Baldwin
“To be a Negro in this county and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.”