Black Lives Quotes - Page 3

• I think this ['March']is essential reading to understand the Black Lives Matter movement. I think it's also essential reading for the Black Lives Matter movement, so that they understand the political context that they're engaging in.

  Andrew Aydin

  Reading, Thinking, Political

  Source: www.salon.com

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• If you understand the Black Lives Matter movement, there's no central leadership of the movement. This is an organic, grassroots movement all around America.

  Cory Booker

  America, Black, Movement

  "Senator Cory Booker: Israel and Middle East Q&A". JLNJ Interview, www.jewishlinknj.com. September 1, 2016.

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• I am of the generation of segregation. Black Lives Matter is post. I said today, and I will say all the time, "If Nina [Simone] were here, she'd have her Black Lives Matter [T-shirt] on." I think they're great kids. They don't need me or anybody else to tell them what to do.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Kids, Thinking, Black

  "Nikki Giovanni on Her Friend Nina Simone: If She Were Here, She'd Be Wearing a 'Black Lives Matter' T-Shirt". Interview with Lottie L. Joiner, www.theroot.com. July 20, 2016.

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• That's not to say that some of the new media is not advantageous. You can reach lots of folks with what Black Lives Matter is doing, mobilizing people. God bless them.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Media, People, Black

  Interview with Jurnee Smollett-Bell, www.lennyletter.com. April 8, 2016.

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• What the Black lives matter movement is doing is they are making it personal. They are making it hash tagged, exposing the racial injustice that continues to haunt our country in a way that you can't ignore. There is power in injustice becoming personal.

  Shane Claiborne

  Country, Black, Becoming

  "Embracing the Margins". Interview with Matt Dabbs, wineskins.org. November 17, 2015.

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• New Orleans invented the brown paper bag party - usually at a gathering in a home - where anyone darker than the bag attached to the door was denied entrance. The brown bag criterion survives as a metaphor for how the black cultural elite quite literally establishes caste along color lines within black life.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Party, Home, New Orleans

  "Come Hell or High Water". Book by Michael Eric Dyson, www.today.com. 2006.

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