Black Pride Quotes

“Don’t be so hard on yourself. Be perfectly okay with being who YOU are. Fully embrace yourself, flaws and all. Love yourself right where you are. Strive to do better, but don’t beat yourself up for every shortcoming that you may have. Be brave in your journey! Hold your head up high, and keep moving forward.”
― Stephanie Lahart

“Dark skin is not
a crime.
Light skin is not
a prize.”
― Anan$i

“My skin is not a sin.”
― Carlos Wallace

“You are the best of our people, but you are not yet good enough.”
― Roxane Gay, Black Panther: World of Wakanda

“A separate society within America would depend on the mechanisms of American wealth creation, and wealth in America has never been created in absence of government policy, of banks willing to lend and a justice system willing to protect, and so this separatist nationalism revealed itself to be as flawed as integration, in that it, too, ultimately depended on the good graces of white people.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

“Oh Maker, what did they really say about your black creation? I think you made a beautiful work of art on a canvass of rebellion. Hey, Maker! We are still selling out!”
― Chinonye J. Chidolue

“As black people, our lives are not tragedies. I will keep fighting against that narrative. Our lives are survival stories that have been passed down from generation to generation. These stories are about joy and celebration and our inherent power. No-one has the capacity to steal our joy. We must resist, resist and keep resisting. We refuse to be annihilated.”
― Diriye Osman

“My skin absorbs the sun's rays
and my hair defies gravity.

You can’t tell me I’m not supernatural.”
― Anan$i

“A black man who lays claim
to his unadulterated knowledge
of self comes second only to God.
A black woman who knows
her worth comes second to none.”
― Anan$i

“...there comes a time in every African American's life when they discover that the flag tot which you have pledged allegiance and such loyalty and not pledged allegiance and loyalty to you.”
― James Baldwin

“...there comes a time in every African American's life when they discover that the flag to which you have pledged allegiance and such loyalty and not pledged allegiance and loyalty to you.”
― James Baldwin

“...there comes a time in every African American's life when they discover that the flag to which you have pledged allegiance and such loyalty has not pledged allegiance and loyalty to you.”
― james baldwin

“The Gospel describes loving your neighbor as yourself, whatever that means, if it means to educate, to feed, to clothe, to house, to advocate, to fight for justice. When the church stops doing that, the church has no reason for being.”
― Dwight Andrews