Victoria Crown > Victoria's Quotes

“this is your country, that this is your world, that this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“I didn’t always have things, but I had people—I always had people.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“We are all our beautiful bodies and so must never be prostrate before barbarians, must never submit our original self, our one of one, to defiling and plunder.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“I almost never danced, as much as I wanted to. I was crippled by some childhood fear of my own body.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“The galaxy belonged to them, and as terror was communicated to our children, I saw mastery communicated to theirs.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world. —”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus?”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“I was a curious boy, but the schools were not concerned with curiosity. They were concerned with compliance.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“To yell “black-on-black crime” is to shoot a man and then shame him for bleeding. And”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“I loved a few of my teachers. But I cannot say that I truly believed any of them.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“One cannot, at once, claim to be superhuman and then plead mortal error.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
― Malcolm X

“I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”
― Malcolm X

“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.”
― Malcolm X

“So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X [Japanese-Language Edition].

“If you have no critics you'll likely have no success. ”
― Malcolm X

“The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.”
― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.”
― Malcolm X

“There is freedom waiting for you,
On the breezes of the sky,
And you ask "What if I fall?"
Oh but my darling,
What if you fly?”
― Erin Hanson