Matter Quotes

That was a difference between black slaves and white indentured servants. Black slaves were usually not allowed to keep their names, but were given new names by their owners.

The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world.

You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason.

No expectations mean more time to focus on what matters most.  

Life is largely a matter of expectation.

I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.

Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism.

Whenever someone refers to me as someone “who happens to be black,” I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on.

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

We’re going to fight racism not with racism, but we’re going to fight with solidarity. We say we’re not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we’re going to fight it with socialism