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“The Negro will have to build his own industry, art, sciences, literature, and culture before the world will stop to consider him.”
― Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey
― Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey
“The things you do not have to say make you rich.
Saying things you do not have to say weakens your talk.
Hearing things you do not need to hear dulls your hearing.
And things you know before you hear them--those are you,
Those are why you are in the world.”
― Crossing Unmarked Snow: Further Views on the Writer's Vocation
Saying things you do not have to say weakens your talk.
Hearing things you do not need to hear dulls your hearing.
And things you know before you hear them--those are you,
Those are why you are in the world.”
― Crossing Unmarked Snow: Further Views on the Writer's Vocation
“The race needs workers at this time, not plagiarists, sopists and mere imitators; but men and women who are able to create, to originate and improve, and thus make an independent racial contribution to the world and civilisation.”
― Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey
― Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey
“Let no voice but your own speak to you from the depths. Let no influence but your own raise you in time of peace and time of war. Hear all, but attend only that which concerns you.”
― Marcus Garvey: Ultimate Collection of Speeches and Poems
― Marcus Garvey: Ultimate Collection of Speeches and Poems
“Somebody said (but if it were not said, then I say it now), that " the laws of our civilization have but one interpretation for the poor and ignorant and for those of wealth and power, there are many interpretations, hence the poor are generally convicted on the one, while the rich are freed on the many interpretations.”
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