Sister Souljah
Sister Souljah
Sister Souljahis an American hip hop-generation author, activist, recording artist, and film producer. She gained prominence for Bill Clinton's criticism of her remarks about race in the United States during the 1992 presidential campaign. Clinton's well-known repudiation of her comments led to what is now known in politics as a Sister Souljah moment...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth28 January 1964
CityBronx, NY
CountryUnited States of America
I think America loves cooperative black men. I am not against Colin Powell, but I know who he is.
I think that the path that I took was normal in the American society where young women and men are not trained as to how to make the transition from being a girl to being a woman, from being a boy to being a man. And so I think that most young people in America live by trial and error, and not by parental instruction, community guidance.
To be a real man or woman, you've got to know what you believe in. You've got to understand that your actions have consequences and that they are connected to everything that you are.
A man who doesn't say what he means or do what he says, craves attention and misuses it when he gets it, doesn't share what he knows and earns,deserves death.
A woman is more than a powerful feeling or unforgettable taste, and a man should not try to eat from every dish. A good woman is a jewel from Allah for which a man must pay a heavy price. Be very careful.
Drugs is a government game, Bilal. A way to rob us of our best black men, our army. Everyone who plays the game loses. Then they get you right back where we started, in slavery! Then they get to say "This time you did it to yourself." I won't play that game.
Nobody sent you to this college to be ordinary. Most of you will graduate and do what someone tells you to be, but how many of you will be extraordinary?
It was the emotion I hated the most of all emotions, shame.
anger cancels good judgement!
Now I realized that me and him were just alike. We were both born to win. And, when we were not winning, it was OK 'cause we were busy planning to win.
My definition of good is that you understand that this is a question of power. That you be willing to give up some power. That you be willing to give up some resources.
How can you be a physics major and be shocked when you get pregnant from having sex?
If black people kill black people every day, why not have a week and kill white people?
She asked me could I read and write. I told her, "Of course, and I can talk too.