Black Consciousness Quotes

• 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

  Country, Men, Black

  Steven Biko (1979). “Steve Biko: Black Consciousness in South Africa”, Vintage

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• Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.

  Steven Biko

  Positivo, Actitud, Largo

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• El arma más potente del opresor es la mente del oprimido.

  Steven Biko

  Histórico, Mente, Armas

  "White Racism and Black Consciousness" (ponencia presentada en un seminario patrocinado por el Abe Bailey Institute of Interracial Studies), Ciudad del Cabo, Sudáfrica, enero de 1971.

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• Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.

  Steven Biko

  Attitude, Reflection, Black

  "I Write What I Like: Selected Writings". Book by Steven Biko edited by Aelred Stubbs, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1978.

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• Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time. Its essence is the realisation by the black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of their oppression - the blackness of their skin - and to operate as a group to rid themselves of the shackles that bind them to perpetual servitude.

  Steven Biko

  Brother, Attitude, Men

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• Black Consciousness is in essence the realization by the black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of their oppression.

  Steven Biko

  Brother, Men, Essence

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• It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die.

  Steven Biko

  Ideas, Dies

  "South Africa: Extremes in Black and Whites" by Scott Macleod, Time Magazine (p. 38), content.time.com. March 9, 1992.

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• You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway.

  Steven Biko

  Alive, Care, Proud

  Steven Biko (1979). “Steve Biko: Black Consciousness in South Africa”, Vintage

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• 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

  Made, Prelude, Realising

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• In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face.

  Steven Biko

  Time, Faces, Position

  "I Write What I Like (White Racism and Black Consciousness)". Book by Steven Biko, 1978.

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• We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our birth. These are concepts which the Black Consciousness approach wishes to eradicate from the black man's mind before our society is driven to chaos by irresponsible people from Coca-cola and hamburger cultural backgrounds.

  Steven Biko

  Hombres, Tierra, Gente

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• Uno siempre siente su doble condición: un americano, un negro; dos almas, dos pensamientos, dos esfuerzos no reconciliados; dos ideales enfrentados en un cuerpo oscuro, cuya tenaz fuerza es la única que impide que se haga pedazos.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Dark, Two, Black History

  "Luchas del pueblo negro" (1897)

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• Part of the approach envisaged in bringing about Black Consciousness has to be directed to the past, to seek to rewrite the history of the black man and to produce in it the heroes who form the core of the African background

  Steven Biko

  Héroe, Hombres, Pasado

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• Black Consciousness therefore takes cognizance of the deliberateness of God's plan in creating Black people black.

  Steven Biko

  Creating, People, Black

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• In all fields black consciousness seeks to talk to the black man in a language that is his own

  Steven Biko

  Men, Black, Fields

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• 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

  Fighting, Black, Use

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• Marcus Garvey was one of the first advocates of Black Power, and is still today the greatest spokesman ever to have been produced by the movement of Black Consciousness...He spoke to all Africans on the earth, whether they lived in Africa, South America, the West Indies or North America, and he made Blacks aware of their strength when united.

  Walter Rodney

  West Indies, America, Black

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• What Black Consciousness seeks to do is to produce real black people who do not regard themselves as appendages to white society. We do not need to apologise for this because it is true that the white systems have produced through the world a number of people who are not aware that they too are people.

  Steven Biko

  Real, White, Numbers

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• En la escuela primaria, algunas chicas tenían problemas conmigo. Mi cara era demasiado clara. Tenía el pelo demasiado largo. Era la época de la conciencia negra y me sentía muy mal.

  Whitney Houston

  Chica, Escuela, Luz

  "Palabras de Whitney Houston: 20 Memorable Quotes From the Late Pop Icon", abcnews.go.com. 15 de febrero de 2012.

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