We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
Moveee Quotes
A collective archive of words that move us. From African literature to global cinema, captured by the community.
You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lies, you may trod me in the very dirt but still, like dust, I’ll rise.
You are your own stories and therefore free to imagine and choose.
Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
Emotion is Negro, as reason is Hellenic.
It’s the little things citizens do. That’s what will make the difference.
Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
A tiger does not proclaim its tigritude, it pounces.
When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and hope.
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds.
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated.
I don’t sing politics, I sing the truth.
The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.
Still I rise.
If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.
You cannot enslave a mind that knows how to think for itself.
The English language is no one’s special property; it is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!
True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
Magic is in our blood.
Home is not a place, it is a feeling.
Feminism is for everybody.
We must reinvent what it means to be human.
There is no pure black culture.
Culture is a site of struggle.
The archive is a site of memory and forgetting.
It is our duty to produce what we need.
A revolution is made by ordinary people.
Free your mind, and your ass will follow.
I am not of this planet. I am from Saturn.
The alien is us.
African science fiction is about the present.
For a society to be truly great, it must be judged by how it treats its most vulnerable.
We have always been imagining our futures.
Science fiction is a tool to help you think.
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
I’m interested in truth, no matter how uncomfortable it is.
I wanted to make a film about the beauty of black women.
I want to show the humanity of my people.
We have a duty to tell our own stories.
A film is a piece of life.
Cinema is magic in the service of dreams.
I want to be the voice of my people.
I am not a black artist, I am an artist.
I’m always looking for the thing that’s going to subvert my own expectations.
I am trying to make sense of the world I live in.
My work is about looking at things from a different angle.
You can’t be born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1955 and grow up in South Central near the Black Panthers headquarters, and not feel like you’ve got some kind of social responsibility.