Black Genius Quotes

“It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a world larger than self.”
― bell hooks, Black Genius: African-American Solutions to African-American Problems

“The life most of us live are lives we are forced to live by immediate needs, influences, and pressures.”
― Walter Mosley, Black Genius: African-American Solutions to African-American Problems

“When we black people commit ourselves to living simply as a political action, as a way of breaking the stress caused by unrelenting hedonistic desire for material objects that are not needed for survival, or essential to well-being, we will not be talking about ebonics. We will be out in the streets demanding that the public schools have enough teachers so that all kids, cross color, can read and write in standard English and in Spanish too.”
― bell hooks, Black Genius: African-American Solutions to African-American Problems