Marcus Garvey Black Quotations

The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.

I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa; there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.

Black men of Carthage, Ethiopia, of Timbuktu and Alexandria gave the likes of civilization to this world

Go to work! Go to work in the morn of a new creation... until you have... reached the height of self-progress, and from that pinnacle bestow upon the world a civilization of your own.

Look to Africa, when a black king shall be crowned for the day of deliverance is at hand!

Be Black, buy Black, think Black, and all else will take care of itself.

Black men, you were once great; you shall be great again. Lose not courage or faith, go forward.