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“I did not come here on earth to sleep, I came to work.”
Mitta Xinindlu
“What you put your energy into is what you produce.”
Robert W. Merriweather
“When the Sun comes up a Lion awakens he knows that he must outrun the slowest Gazelle or he will starve. When the Sun comes up a Gazelle also awakens, he knows that he must outrun the fastest Lion or he will be eaten. So in the end, it does not matter whether you are a Lion or a Gazelle, when the Sun comes up, you better be running!”
An Old African Proverb
“A leader's place is not to judge his people by how much they like him, but to like his people in such a way that they always judge him right.”
Segun Ologe
“Fast Foods are a diabolically clever way of targeting poor people and African Americans by the government with low nutrient foods that secretly cause an early onset of type II diabetics resulting in death before the age 65 and thus also avoids payouts from social security benefits and the gene for obesity is passed on to off spring.”
Dwight W. Hayes
“It is not black people that mess up a city, it is the stupid way white cops react when decent black folk are in the city.”
Marie Muhammad
“We are not opposed to any effort in the African-American community to build respect, responsibility and opportunity. We are deeply disappointed that the only leadership it can have is a bigot and a racist and an anti-Semite and conspirator.”
Abraham Foxman