Of course I was in love with my father as a child. He was Daddy, and our house came alive in a special way whenever he walked through the door. He’d romp and play with us; my sisters and I would literally squeal with excitement when Daddy came home. Ilyasah Shabazz Read Quote
I don’t know that there is a, quote, ‘hip-hop lifestyle.’ I think the music responds to complex social issues and injustices; I think it also raises complex social questions. Ilyasah Shabazz Read Quote
Everyone puts all of the advances that we’ve made on Dr. King, but there’s a lot of people who were part of the civil rights movement. Ilyasah Shabazz Read Quote
After graduating high school, Betty attended the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Birmingham, Alabama, the alma mater of both her parents. My mother relocated to New York because she refused to accept the oppressive racism of the Jim Crow south. Ilyasah Shabazz Read Quote
