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Top 20 Ilyasah Shabazz Quotes (2025 Update)

Ilyasah Shabazz Quote: “We are simply spirits in a shell. The body is merely a covering, a casement for the soul.”

1. “We are simply spirits in a shell. The body is merely a covering, a casement for the soul.”

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Ilyasah Shabazz Quote: “But just because you have a bad season doesn’t mean you stop planting.”

2. “But just because you have a bad season doesn’t mean you stop planting.”

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Ilyasah Shabazz Quote: “I’m not meant to be part of the things that are wrong with the world, but neither am I meant to run from them. I’m meant to fight against them. I can’t hold my own in the ring, but out in the world, I do know how to fight. With words. With truth.”

3. “I’m not meant to be part of the things that are wrong with the world, but neither am I meant to run from them. I’m meant to fight against them. I can’t hold my own in the ring, but out in the world, I do know how to fight. With words. With truth.”

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Ilyasah Shabazz Quote: “The government people wanted us to believe there was something wrong with her. Because she was strong. Because she stood up for what she believed. Times were hard, but she was still Mom, and she refused to let anyone reduce her.”

4. “The government people wanted us to believe there was something wrong with her. Because she was strong. Because she stood up for what she believed. Times were hard, but she was still Mom, and she refused to let anyone reduce her.”

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Ilyasah Shabazz Quote: “Life is not a destination; it is a journey. Faith makes everything possible. In order to succeed in life, we must first believe that we can.”

5. “Life is not a destination; it is a journey. Faith makes everything possible. In order to succeed in life, we must first believe that we can.”

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Ilyasah Shabazz Quote: “We could recite passages from Shakespeare and legends about African kingdoms going back thousands of years. We could share facts about the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, the largest forced migration of a people in the history of humankind, and about the great military strategist Queen Nzingah, who defended the nation of Angola against Portuguese invaders in a powerful effort to destroy the slave trade entirely.”

6. “We could recite passages from Shakespeare and legends about African kingdoms going back thousands of years. We could share facts about the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, the largest forced migration of a people in the history of humankind, and about the great military strategist Queen Nzingah, who defended the nation of Angola against Portuguese invaders in a powerful effort to destroy the slave trade entirely.”

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Ilyasah Shabazz Quote: “Papa, who instructed us to always hold our heads up, who promised us we were worthy, who assured us we were descended from kings – and from architects and farmers and healers and visionaries – no matter what all the hateful people in the world had to say about us.”

7. “Papa, who instructed us to always hold our heads up, who promised us we were worthy, who assured us we were descended from kings – and from architects and farmers and healers and visionaries – no matter what all the hateful people in the world had to say about us.”

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Ilyasah Shabazz Quote: “Mom talked a good game about the power of blackness, but she knew that the white world held even more power. You just needed to find a way to break in.”

8. “Mom talked a good game about the power of blackness, but she knew that the white world held even more power. You just needed to find a way to break in.”

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Ilyasah Shabazz Quote: “It’s easier, I guess, to laugh and joke and pretend that tomorrow won’t be any different from any of the days before. Easier than trying to talk about how strange it is to be part of a family and still be all alone.”

9. “It’s easier, I guess, to laugh and joke and pretend that tomorrow won’t be any different from any of the days before. Easier than trying to talk about how strange it is to be part of a family and still be all alone.”

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Ilyasah Shabazz Quote: “I’m making friends. Feeling good. My new name makes me feel lighter on my feet. With a new name, anything is possible.”

10. “I’m making friends. Feeling good. My new name makes me feel lighter on my feet. With a new name, anything is possible.”

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Ilyasah Shabazz Quote: “Love is always a big deal.”

11. “Love is always a big deal.”

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Ilyasah Shabazz Quote: “Maybe it had been me causing this trouble all along. All my antics. I was the problem, the one who couldn’t do right, no matter what.”

12. “Maybe it had been me causing this trouble all along. All my antics. I was the problem, the one who couldn’t do right, no matter what.”

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Ilyasah Shabazz Quote: “I knew what it meant. Pap didn’t have an accident. He died for being a proud black man. He died because someone killed him. Someone who was going to get away with it.”

13. “I knew what it meant. Pap didn’t have an accident. He died for being a proud black man. He died because someone killed him. Someone who was going to get away with it.”

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Ilyasah Shabazz Quote: “The government men dragged Mom out of the house. They held her by the elbows and ankles and shoulders and thighs, their harsh, meaty hands digging into her softness. She flailed against their touch, but they overpowered her with ease, the way white men always know how to do.”

14. “The government men dragged Mom out of the house. They held her by the elbows and ankles and shoulders and thighs, their harsh, meaty hands digging into her softness. She flailed against their touch, but they overpowered her with ease, the way white men always know how to do.”

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Ilyasah Shabazz Quote: “We all chanted one of Garvey’s famous phrases together: Up, up you mighty race. You can accomplish what you will.”

15. “We all chanted one of Garvey’s famous phrases together: Up, up you mighty race. You can accomplish what you will.”

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Ilyasah Shabazz Quote: “I know without knowing: the man in that tree was a proud black man. Uppity, some might say. Out of his place, some might say. Too smart for his own good. I can hear the words, see those pink lips moving, spitting the words that promised his death. His back never bent underneath it, and they hated that most. I know plenty.”

16. “I know without knowing: the man in that tree was a proud black man. Uppity, some might say. Out of his place, some might say. Too smart for his own good. I can hear the words, see those pink lips moving, spitting the words that promised his death. His back never bent underneath it, and they hated that most. I know plenty.”

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Ilyasah Shabazz Quote: “For a quick second, when he met my eyes, I knew what he was thinking, too. Malcolm, the troublemaker. Malcolm, the one who won’t toe the line. Looking in his eyes – a thing I maybe never did before – it speared me.”

17. “For a quick second, when he met my eyes, I knew what he was thinking, too. Malcolm, the troublemaker. Malcolm, the one who won’t toe the line. Looking in his eyes – a thing I maybe never did before – it speared me.”

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Ilyasah Shabazz Quote: “Ella looked every bit like a well-to-do city woman. Her black hair was coiled in waves around her head, beneath a pert, proper red hat. She wore matching gloves and a coat that looked thick and warm. She was a tall woman with a strong presence. She seemed enormous to me, like Papa, so full of blackness.”

18. “Ella looked every bit like a well-to-do city woman. Her black hair was coiled in waves around her head, beneath a pert, proper red hat. She wore matching gloves and a coat that looked thick and warm. She was a tall woman with a strong presence. She seemed enormous to me, like Papa, so full of blackness.”

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Ilyasah Shabazz Quote: “So he’s nervous about me making trouble at the bus stop. It makes me want to laugh. Just as truthfully, I could’ve told him I was class president. On the football team. Straight-A student. But what was interesting about any of that?”

19. “So he’s nervous about me making trouble at the bus stop. It makes me want to laugh. Just as truthfully, I could’ve told him I was class president. On the football team. Straight-A student. But what was interesting about any of that?”

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Ilyasah Shabazz Quote: “Here and now, I don’t want to be Detroit Red. I want to slip the skin of this life, to be new and clean again.”

20. “Here and now, I don’t want to be Detroit Red. I want to slip the skin of this life, to be new and clean again.”

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Ilyasah Shabazz Quote: “I had to second-guess everything. The classmates who had elected me president – did they really think I was the best in the class, or was I just a novelty object they wanted to play with?”

21. “I had to second-guess everything. The classmates who had elected me president – did they really think I was the best in the class, or was I just a novelty object they wanted to play with?”

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Ilyasah Shabazz Quote: “I believed in Papa’s stories a lot longer than I should have.”

22. “I believed in Papa’s stories a lot longer than I should have.”

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Ilyasah Shabazz Quote: “For a second, I get a little sad about it. Not the leaving – just the way it seems like the world is always changing, right underneath my feet.”

23. “For a second, I get a little sad about it. Not the leaving – just the way it seems like the world is always changing, right underneath my feet.”

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