I write what i like
I write what i like (first published 1978) is a compilation of writings by Steve Biko a South African anti apartheid activist.
Quotes
edit- What we want is not black visibility but real black participation.”
- Chapter 2, Page 5
- 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.
- 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.”
- Chapter 3, Page 15
- 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.
- We have a responsibility not only to ourselves but also to the society from which we spring.”
- Chapter 2, Page 7
- I write what i want!
- page 19