Quotes from Sister Souljah

I think America loves cooperative black men. I am not against Colin Powell, but I know who he is.

If you do something positive, something positive will come back to you. If you consciously do negative things, then negativity will rule your life.

Racism is a system of power and in the absence of power you cannot be considered a racist.

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.

anger cancels good judgement!

History is history. What is done is done.

I was well known to African Americans before Bill Clinton discovered me. He was like Christopher Columbus riding up on something he didn't understand.

The gap between the young people and the rest of society is that...young people don't have hope.

Shakespeare wrote about love. I write about love. Shakespeare wrote about gang warfare, family feuds and revenge. I write about all the same things.

Those that trust no one, usually end up trusting the wrong person."-Umma to Midnight

I'm not who you think i am. If you love me, you love me for the wrong reasons.

Now y'all know it's to many of y'all. GS told me to bring up the baddest female in the house.

Love never disappears," he said calmly. "It's impossible. If it disappears it was never love," he said.

I had gone into my wife Akemi over and over and in so many ways that the thought alone made my heart begin to race and my entire body began to sweat like summer but in the spring season.

in the ancient African tradition women are the sacred key to life. They carry, then push all life into existence. They are a metaphor for wisdom. Midnight

Remember, your body is the vehicle that your soul is using here on Earth. If you don't pay attention and take great care with your vehicle, it will break and become useless. Then your soul will be released and return.

There's three type of men you got to avoid at any cost—the police, the army recruiters, the hustlers. They all want your life and that's all you got.

Not every bitch is a queen. Most chicks are just regular. Most of them know it and accept it, as long as nobody points it out. A queen is authentic, not because she says so, just because she is. A queen doesn't have to say nothing. Everybody can see it, and feel it, too.

If you're deciding what you believe every day and every day you believe something else, you have nothing to look forward to but chaos.

When we hate ourselves we destroy our bodies with alcohol, drugs, casual sex, and a bunch of stuff. Then we look at ourselves and hate ourselves even more.

Women want love, peace, unity, and shit like that. Men are tribal. I ain't tryna save the world. I'm just tryna get my piece for my crew, that's all. That's all it's about and that's the most you can ask for. What you know about that?

Jealousy is a dangerous emotion. Jealous people are usually so intensely dissatisfied with themselves that they have a burning desire to destroy anyone who has something they want, but feel they can't have.

Somewhere along the line many of us as women are led to believe that being pretty is enough. And while we rely on that, we forget to strengthen our minds so that we can learn how to think, how to build. How to survive. We forget how to live our lives to protect our spirit, to be clean and decent. We forget that everything we do matters so much.

Chemical warfare is the only way to describe what happens when cheap perfume, body splash, body spray, underarm deodorant, curl activator, hair spray, and pissy Pampers collide.