Top 40 Sister Souljah Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I’m not who you think i am. If you love me, you love me for the wrong reasons.”

— Sister Souljah

2. “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.”

— Sister Souljah

3. “Love and build, love and work, love and fight. Always love first. Anything placed before love will fail.”

— Sister Souljah

4. “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.”

— Sister Souljah

5. “I never said I was an angel. Nor am I innocent or holy like the Virgin Mary. What I am is natural and serious and as sensitive as an open nerve on an ice cube.”

— Sister Souljah

6. “Rage is the opposite of thought, whoever has put you in this frame of mind has more control over you right now, than you have over yourself. If he is your opponent and you will face him today, you will be defeated.”

— Sister Souljah

7. “I don’t want to be limited or ghettoized in any way.”

— Sister Souljah

8. “Black people don’t know what white people are talking about when they talk about a Sister Souljah moment. I tell them it’s the moment you meet a proud, beautiful black woman you can never forget.”

— Sister Souljah

9. “If black people kill black people every day, why not have a week and kill white people?”

— Sister Souljah

10. “To be a real man or woman, you’ve got to know what you believe in. You’ve got to understand that your actions have consequences and that they are connected to everything that you are.”

— Sister Souljah

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

— Sister Souljah

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

— Sister Souljah

13. “History is history. What is done is done.”

— Sister Souljah

14. “Now I realized that me and him were just alike. We were both born to win. And, when we were not winning, it was OK ’cause we were busy planning to win.”

— Sister Souljah

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

— Sister Souljah

16. “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.”

— Sister Souljah

17. “Love never disappears,” he said calmly. “It’s impossible. If it disappears it was never love,” he said.”

— Sister Souljah

18. “No one can remain married today because they are not married to the one they love, they are married to their sacrifice, and pretending to love is too damned painful. Love and build, love and work, love and fight. Always love first. Anything placed before love will fail.”

— Sister Souljah

19. “Bill Clinton is like a lot of white politicians. They eat soul food, they party with black women, they play the saxophone, but when it comes to domestic and foreign policy, they make the same decisions that are destructive to African people in this country and throughout the world.”

— Sister Souljah

20. “A man without study is a hostage to his own faults. In.”

— Sister Souljah

21. “It’s funny how the same thing a man loves, is the same thing that he hates. What makes me stand out as a woman is that I have nonnegotiable principles, strength, and faith in my people. From the time that we shared you seemed to love that, admire it, even. Now you hate it because my ways have isolated you. The truth is, you’ve isolated yourself.”

— Sister Souljah

22. “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.”

— Sister Souljah

23. “It might be hard to believe, but the air in prison is different. There’s like one thousand people sucking on the one little piece of fresh air until it turns stale.”

— Sister Souljah

24. “Drugs is a government game, Bilal. A way to rob us of our best black men, our army. Everyone who plays the game loses. Then they get you right back where we started, in slavery! Then they get to say “This time you did it to yourself.” I won’t play that game.”

— Sister Souljah

25. “I was beautiful; after all, my skin was as rich and dark as wet, brown mud, a complexion that any and every pale white girl would pray for – that is, if she believed in God. My butt sat high in the air and my hips obviously gave birth to Creation. Titties like mangoes, firm, sweet, and ready. My thighs and legs were big and powerful, kicking Vanna White and Cindy Crawford to the curb.”

— Sister Souljah

26. “Unless you are a part of someone’s life every day or even just with them most of the time, you will never really know what they have and had, what happened with them and how they really are, what they do, why they do it that way and what they feel.”

— Sister Souljah

27. “It was the emotion I hated the most of all emotions, shame.”

— Sister Souljah

28. “Don’t care too much, Porsche. Every person you meet will use it against you.”

— Sister Souljah

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

— Sister Souljah

30. “The storyteller is clever and masterful and has already decided exactly what he wants you to think and believe.”

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31. “Thoughtfulness leads to consideration. Consideration leads to feelings. Feelings lead to brotherhood. Brotherhood leads to unity.”

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32. “So if you’re a gang member and you would normally be killing somebody, why not kill a white person?”

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33. “At six-fifteen the sun snuck up and mugged the moon.”

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34. “But how do we get men and women before they are hunted like foxes and trapped like rats and treated like ants to understand the concept of unity, working, building, living together? It seems the Black National Anthem is If it’s broke, don’t fix it.”

— Sister Souljah

35. “There are three kinds of men, I realized. There are the non-believers, the make-believers, and the true believers.”

— Sister Souljah

36. “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.”

— Sister Souljah

37. “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.”

— Sister Souljah

38. “Women are one hundred percent emotion. Love them but don’t obey them.” There was a time when I did not fully understand these words. But now I did, realizing that if the women had it their way, they would just remain wrapped up with their man and their sons and daughters all day and nothing would get accomplished. Then of course every man learns that if he doesn’t accomplish anything, the same women who didn’t want you to leave their side would lose their admiration and respect for you.”

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39. “Anger cancels good judgment.”

— Sister Souljah

40. “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.”

— Sister Souljah