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Double consciousness is knowing the particularity of the white world in the face of its enforced claim to universality. Double consciousness is knowing the history offered up to black people - its many interpretations and echoes of white superiority and black inferiority, of white heroism and black cowardice, and even the temporal and geographical location of history's beginning as a step off of the African continent - is a falsehood that blacks are forced to treat as truth in so many countless ways. Double consciousness, in other words, is knowing a lie while living its contradiction. ~ Steve Biko
Biko quotes by Steve Biko
We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our birth. These are concepts which the Black Consciousness approach wishes to eradicate from the black man's mind before our society is driven to chaos by irresponsible people from Coca-cola and hamburger cultural backgrounds. ~ Steven Biko
Biko quotes by Steven Biko
I would like to remind the black ministry, and indeed all black people, that God is not in the habit of coming down from heaven to solve people's problems on earth. ~ Steve Biko
Biko quotes by Steve Biko
At the time of his death, Biko had a wife and three children for which he left a letter that stated in one part: I've devoted my life to see equality for blacks, and at the same time, I've denied the needs of my family. Please understand that I take these actions, not out of selfishness or arrogance, but to preserve a South Africa worth living in for blacks and whites. ~ Steve Biko
Biko quotes by Steve Biko
Tradition has it that whenever a group of people has tasted the lovely fruits of wealth, security and prestige it begins to find it more comfortable to believe in the obvious lie and accept that it alone is entitled to privilege. ~ Steven Biko
Biko quotes by Steven Biko
Black Consciousness seeks to infuse the black community with a new-found pride in themselves, their efforts, their value systems, their culture, their religion and their outlook to life. ~ Steven Biko
Biko quotes by Steven Biko
The enemy came to steal,kill and destroy our hero Steve Biko. He was chosen by God and no one can deny that. ~ Euginia Herlihy
Biko quotes by Euginia Herlihy
A Black man should be more independent and depend on himself for his freedom and not to take it for granted that someone would lead him to it. The blacks are tired of standing at the touchlines to witness a game that they should be playing. They want to do things for themselves and all by themselves. ~ Steven Biko
Biko quotes by Steven Biko
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. ~ Steven Biko
Biko quotes by Steven Biko
The greatest weapon in the hand of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. ~ Steve Biko
Biko quotes by Steve Biko
Part of the approach envisaged in bringing about Black Consciousness has to be directed to the past, to seek to rewrite the history of the black man and to produce in it the heroes who form the core of the African background ~ Steven Biko
Biko quotes by Steven Biko
The basic tenet of black consciousness is that the black man must reject all value systems that seek to make him a foreigner in the country of his birth and reduce his basic human dignity. ~ Steven Biko
Biko quotes by Steven Biko
What Black Consciousness seeks to do is to produce real black people who do not regard themselves as appendages to white society. We do not need to apologise for this because it is true that the white systems have produced through the world a number of people who are not aware that they too are people. ~ Steve Biko
Biko quotes by Steve Biko
We believe it is the duty of the vanguard political movement which brings change to educate people's outlook ~ Steven Biko
Biko quotes by Steven Biko
Black man, you are on your own. ~ Steven Biko
Biko quotes by Steven Biko
A game at which the liberals have become masters is that of deliberate evasiveness. The question often comes up `what can you do?`. If you ask him to do something like stopping to use segregated facilities or dropping out of varsity to work at menial jobs like all blacks or defying and denouncing all provisions that make him privileged, you always get the answer - `but that's unrealistic!' While this may be true, it only serves to illustrate the fact that mo matter what a white man does, the colour of his skin - his passport to privilege- will always put him miles ahead of the black men. Thus in the ultimate analysis, no white person can escape being part of the oppressor camp. ~ Steve Biko
Biko quotes by Steve Biko
No group, however benevolent, can ever hand power to the vanquished on a plate. ~ Steve Biko
Biko quotes by Steve Biko
The wealth of the country must eventually be enjoyed by people of the country ~ Steven Biko
Biko quotes by Steven Biko
I think the central theme about black society is that it has got elements of a defeated society ~ Steven Biko
Biko quotes by Steven Biko
Thus in South Africa it is very expensive to be poor. It is the poor people who stay furthest from town and therefore have to spend more money on transport to come and work for white people; it is the poor people who use uneconomic and inconvenient fuel like paraffin and coal because of the refusal of the white man to install electricity in black areas; it is the poor people who are governed by many ill-defined restrictive laws and therefore have to spend money on fines for 'technical' offences; it is the poor people who have no hospitals and are therefore exposed to exorbitant charges by private doctors; it is the poor people who use untarred roads, have to walk long distances, and therefore experience the greatest wear and tear on commodities like shoes; it is the poor people who have to pay for their children's books while whites get them free. ~ Steve Biko
Biko quotes by Steve Biko
The great powers of the world may have done wonders in giving the world an industrial and military look but the great gift still has to come from Africa - giving the world a more human face. ~ Steven Biko
Biko quotes by Steven Biko
WOMEN must be at the forefront of nation-building to bring the South African citizenry together and, therefore, develop a whole new ethos of human co-existence ~ Steven Biko
Biko quotes by Steven Biko
The essence of politics is to direct oneself to the group which wields power ~ Steven Biko
Biko quotes by Steven Biko
In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift - a more human face. ~ Steven Biko
Biko quotes by Steven Biko
The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human, not superior. Same with Blacks. They must be made to realise that they are also human, not inferior. ~ Steve Biko
Biko quotes by Steve Biko
Being black is not a matter of pigmentation - being black is a reflection of a mental attitude. ~ Steven Biko
Biko quotes by Steven Biko
The black man has become a shell, a shadow of man, completely defeated, drowning in his own misery, a slave, an ox bearing the yoke of oppression with sheepish timidity. ~ Steven Biko
Biko quotes by Steven Biko
Youth. Murder (Biko). Slavery. Freedom. We are all creatures of ignorance at the end of the day. The natural order of the hierarchy of life states that we are creatures. Creatures of habit whether it is normal (following the status quo and all of that jazz). Creatures of marching orders and almost sanitary routine. Creatures of the abnormal. Our leaders are coldly obliterating the past. It is impossible to destroy nations, tribes, individuals without their permission. Many lessons learned from the past come to life like the connect the dots game of a child in a museum. We are swift to forget history. Bury the past like yesterday's newspaper, our infirm and elderly in nursing homes. ~ Abigail George
Biko quotes by Abigail George
It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality. ~ Steven Biko
Biko quotes by Steven Biko
We must realise that prophetic cry of black students: Black man you are on your own! ~ Steven Biko
Biko quotes by Steven Biko
My grandfather was a member of Parliament for 40 years. Obviously we're talking here South Africa, a whites only parliament. I grew up in a family that was very involved with the legal battles against apartheid - the great treason trials in the 1950s and early '60s, and later with the legal resources center that my mother founded. My father was involved with a number of very prominent cases that had political aspects to them, whether it was the inquest into the Sharpeville Massacre, the death of Steve Biko, or one of the trials of Nelson Mandela. ~ William Kentridge
Biko quotes by William Kentridge
War and peace. There are blurred lines in the realities of both. A separation anxiety as the paradigm shifts from the air that a sniper wears on his face (real life, entertainment for the masses or the propaganda machine you decide), to the blueprint of an assassination in a driveway (Chris Hani lying in a pool of his own blood). You know that we cannot eat stones but we can burn, butcher, necklace, murder, forcibly remove and displace entire families, races of different faiths in the name of apartheid. Nelson Mandela, Steve Biko and Chris Hani instruments of change, war, tolerance or peace. The Romantics got it right before anyone else did. Truth is beauty. The truth is South Africa is not cool anymore. ~ Abigail George
Biko quotes by Abigail George
We are experiencing new problems every day and whatever we do adds to the richness of our cultural heritage as long as it has man as its centre ~ Steven Biko
Biko quotes by Steven Biko
Apartheid - both petty and grand - is obviously evil ~ Steven Biko
Biko quotes by Steven Biko
This is white man's integration, an integration based on exploitative values ~ Steven Biko
Biko quotes by Steven Biko
Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time. ~ Steven Biko
Biko quotes by Steven Biko
Opportunities come with tides. And very few men have tides come their way twice in a lifetime. This is your tide. You should get on it, and see where it takes you, possibly to the next level . ~ Jackson Biko
Biko quotes by Jackson Biko
The oneness of community for instance is at the heart of our culture. ~ Steven Biko
Biko quotes by Steven Biko
all is dead
but for the mosquitoes
singing
their blood song ~ Thabo Jijana
Biko quotes by Thabo Jijana
I'm going to be me as I am, and you can beat me or jail me or even kill me, but I'm not going to be what you want me to be. ~ Steven Biko
Biko quotes by Steven Biko
I write what I like ~ Steve Biko
Biko quotes by Steve Biko
I am against the fact that a settler minority should impose an entire system of values on an indigenous people. ~ Steven Biko
Biko quotes by Steven Biko
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