JPEGMAFIA Quotes

My number one priority is to save the Black man.

I wasn't an Uncle Tom and I never was gonna be.

The black community has been the foundation of the progressive community in this country for a long time.

I'll also say, yes, I think the change in black consciuosness in recent years has made me more sensitive to injustice in every area of my life.

White America's live under this accusation that they're racist, they need to prove that they're not racist. In order to prove that you're not racist, you need to take over the fate of black people and say, go with us, we'll engineer you into the future, we'll engineer you into equality.

People are more afraid of black unity than black rage.

Merely by describing yourself as black you have started on a road towards emancipation, you have committed yourself to fight against all forces that seek to use your blackness as a stamp that marks you out as a subservient being.

I think Black people need to take self-esteem seriously.

The world has made being black a crime .... I hope to make it a virtue.

We are better off than all the other Black people in the entire world. We are the hope and aspiration of Blacks in the rest of the world.

I think, as a black man, I have a responsibility to have knowledge and have an opinion.

I think #BlackLivesMatter is a huge campaign that is important and integral to our advancement as a people.

I'm interested in seeing artists whom I respect who are very focused on the Black Lives Matter moment, bringing that into storytelling in a way that really amplifies the beauty and the humanity of people of color, and does it without having to wave a big sign that says, 'This is what we're doing.'

I think that we are all deeply, deeply committed to the liberation of black people. And so, when you put people together who have and share that commitment, the sky is the limit.

I like to think my work is furthering black culture by educating and empowering black people.

Black Lives Matter is really an affirmation for our people. It's a love note for our people, but it's also a demand. We know that the system was not designed for justice for us.

We actually know that all lives do matter. And we believe it is so much so that we had to create Black Lives Matter.

I was in awe of previous black liberation struggle leaders - Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells. I wanted to be part of something bigger than myself. Black Lives Matter has been that.

Black people are achievers; we're survivors.

Any negro who occupies a position that was given to him by the white man, if you analyze his function, his function never enables him to really take a firm, uncompromising, militant stand on problems that confront our people.

You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress ... No matter how much respect, no matter how much recognition, whites show towards me, as far as I am concerned, as long as it is not shown to everyone of our people in this country, it doesn't exist for me.

Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the subordination which Booker T. Washington had preached.

I thought our community should have a deep dialogue to make black America better. I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.

But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.

I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence.