African American Quotes - Page 4

• In every crisis there is a message.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Messages, Crisis

  "Earth Doesn’t Have Be Doomed Like Atlantis - We Can Change Course" by Andrew Lawler, www.motherjones.com. November 26, 2015.

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• Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Inspiring, Money, Work

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.39, Beacon Press

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• I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Nikki Giovanni (1988). “Sacred cows-- and other edibles”, William Morrow & Co

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• Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Encouraging

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• No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Words Of Wisdom, Matter, Way

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.109, University of Illinois Press

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  Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

  Malcolm X

  Respect, Peace, Hands

  "Message to the Grass Roots" (speech), Detroit, Mich., 10 Nov. 1963

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• We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.

  Barack Obama

  Mom, Mother, Teenage

  "Empathy and the Supreme Court" by Jonah Goldberg, articles.latimes.com. April 13, 2010.

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• Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Motivational, Happiness, Success

  Wilma Rudolph (1977). “Wilma”

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• Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.

  Ernest Gaines

  Stars, Stripes, Questioning Everything

  Ernest J. Gaines (2012). “Bloodline: Five Stories”, p.95, Vintage

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• Delaware State is no longer a college for African Americans without other choices, it is a university of choice.

  Michael N. Castle

  College, Choices, Delaware

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• Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics.

  Lynn Swann

  Sports, Education, Country

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• If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2017

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• I accept that people are going to call me awful things every day, and I will always defend their right to do so.

  Barack Obama

  Acceptance, Rights, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.

  Gordon Parks

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• What I need to do is have a great positive attitude and a great work ethic. Those two things validate me. Yes, it's important that I have good numbers, and I'm well-respected as a player. But I think it's more important that I'm respected as a man.

  David Robinson

  Sports, Respect, Attitude

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• A goal without a plan is a wish.

  Herman Edwards

  Goals Dreams, Wish, Planning

  "Former NFL Coach Herm Edwards On Leadership, Legacy, And Living To Make A Difference". Interview with Andrew Moses, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 2, 2017.

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• I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera.

  Gordon Parks

  Racism, Cameras, Cinema

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• Don't let the same dog bite you twice.

  Chuck Berry

  Dog, Musician, Biting

  Chuck Berry (1987). “Chuck Berry: The Autobiography”, Random House Value Publishing

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• If the past is not resolved, future relationships will suffer. Let your heart heal, before you open the door to another.

  Leon Brown

  Life, Relationship, Baseball

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• People say that it was degrading for an Olympic champion to run against a horse, but what was I supposed to do? I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals. There was no television, no big advertising, no endorsements then. Not for a black man, anyway.

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, Running, Horse

  "Owens pierced a myth" by Larry Schwartz, www.espn.com.

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• Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet.

  Ntozake Shange

  Women, Feminist, Alive

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• I have this ability to find this hidden talent in people that sometimes even they didn't know they had.

  Berry Gordy

  People, Aptitude, Talent

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• I had to learn to be honest with myself. I had to recognize my pain threshold. When I hit the floor, I have to realize it's not as if I broke a bone. Pushing yourself over the barrier is a habit. I know I can do it and try something else crazy. If you want to win the war, you've got to pay the price.

  Flo Hyman

  Sports, Pain, War

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• I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

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• Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Happiness, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jun 08, 2009

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