Shay Youngblood Quotes & Sayings

I was a woman and did not yet think of myself as a writer. I was a mapmaker. — Shay Youngblood

The world ain't ready for true black genius. In every nigger is a cup of African blood from kings and queens of divine nature, mathematicians, craftsmen, men and women of the land. I have known some sisters and brothers would scare Einstein back into East European caves with the magnificence of their minds. We are a people with a practical nature and great vision. We have built nations, discovered treasures for everyday use. Our people are a great race of people, and though the Europeans raped and plundered, we have kept inner riches. You got a cup of African blood and that mean something, means you got a responsibility to be proud of it and use your talents or suffer self-destruction. — Shay Youngblood

There was power in the pen, I knew this for certain ... It was there all the time, just waiting for me. — Shay Youngblood