

Mwariama Sankara
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“At most they recognize that the Negro has artistic gifts linked to his sensitivity as an inferior animal. Such is the opinion of the Frenchman Joseph de Gobineau, precursor of Nazi philosophy, who in his famous book ‘On the Inequality of Human Races’ decrees that the artistic sense is inseparable from Negro blood; but he reduces art to an…
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“Either we see ourselves as members of a family, that is an ethnic family, or we do not. Families nurture, socialize, and protect their members. Either the family is structured and stable for power or it is not. Either the family has a functioning network or it does not. Either the family has a vision of the future or it does not. Either the…
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“A man who succeeds in making a group of people accept a foreign concept in which he is expert makes them perpetual students whose progress in the particular field can only be evaluated by him; the student must constantly turn to him for guidance and promotion.
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“So long as the Negro continues to borrow culture produced by white men, so long will he be inferior. The Negro must enter the field of production.”
Marcus Garvey
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When a Man Loves Woman.
“Dangerfield Newby, quite literally, died for love. The free black Virginian had raised enough money to buy his wife out of slavery, but her master either pushed up the price or turned him down. Meanwhile, Newby, a blacksmith with a smoldering temper, had received a letter from his wife, Harriet, begging him to rescue…
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