Black America Quotes

“When you watch the videos of soul singers dancing across the stage in that era, with their lye-straighten haired and that side part, what crosses your mind?   When did you go “natural” or do you still process your hair? ”
― Sonja Cassandra Perdue, Black America: Asking Ourselves The Tough Questions — Book One 2010

“This book is not for the academics—we listened to their lectures and read their theses.  Nor is it being presented for the opinions of the political actors or media performers with their corporate-sponsored and controlled sound bytes of nothingness.    This book is for you. ”
― Sonja Cassandra Perdue, Black America: Asking Ourselves The Tough Questions — Book One 2010

“it is you who will now be the judge of your own Black consciousness.   If”
― Sonja Cassandra Perdue, Black America: Asking Ourselves The Tough Questions — Book One 2010

“These were not letters flowing into words or words into sentences.  You are not turning the pages of a book.  You are moving through space and time to a different place in the history of the African in America.    All that has been lost will forever be lost.  Whether by force or by cooperation, we have given all that will be given.  No more.  This is our time.   ?”
― Sonja Cassandra Perdue, Black America: Asking Ourselves The Tough Questions — Book One 2010

“The generation of choice has left us no choices.   As our world turns and we devour ourselves.   We stare into the eyes of our children, a brilliant reflection of our image.    And, we blame them for what we see.”
― Sonja Cassandra Perdue, Black America: Asking Ourselves The Tough Questions — Book One 2010