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- I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to
me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals,
my own; get used to me.
-- Muhammad Ali The Greatest (1975)
- Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of
the slave. I rise I rise I rise.
-- Maya Angelou "Still I rise," And Still
I Rise (1978)
- Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you
can.
-- Arthur Ashe quoted in Sports Illustrated
- Just
like you can buy grades of silk, you can buy grades of justice.
-- Ray
Charles
- The past is a ghost, the future a dream. All we ever
have is now.
-- Bill Cosby
- There is no negro problem.
The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough,
patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution...
-- Frederick
Douglass
- You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your
hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.
-- Billie Holiday
- Greatness occurs when your children love
you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.
--
Quincy Jones
- Do not call for black power or green power. Call
for brain power.
-- Barbara Jordan
- Almost always, the
creative dedicated minority has made the world better.
-- Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr.
- The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals.
The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of
us—that's where it's at.
-- Jesse Owens, Blackthink (1970)
- I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminshes
fear.
-- Rosa Parks
- Have a vision. Be demanding.
--
Colin Powell
- Be black, shine, aim high.
-- Leontyne Price
- God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
-- African
Proverb
- Freedom is never given; it is won.
-- A. Philip
Randolph in keynote speech given at the Second National Negro Congress in 1937
- When I found I had crossed that line, [on her first escape from slavery,
1845] I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory
over everything.
-- Harriet Tubman
- Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached
in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
-- Booker T. Washington
- Black people have always been America's
wilderness in search of a promised land.
-- Cornel West, Race Matters
- We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What
we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the
world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.
-- Carter
Woodson on founding Negro History Week, 1926
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