African American Quotes - Page 14

• The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Art, Revolution, Novelists

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• You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Positive, Faith

  Mother Jones Magazine, Vol.16, No.3, p.77, May - June 1991.

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• Embrace struggle... It is your greatest teacher.

  Russell Simmons

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

  Twitter post from Mar 19, 2017

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• Black! Black! Black! I am proud of being a Negro. Nor have I ever tried to beg tolerance from anyone. Superiority is not proved by color, but by the brain, by education, by willpower, by moral courage.

  Jose Celso Barbosa

  Education, Color, Justice

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• Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.

  Julian Bond

  Education, Children, School

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• Peace is no mere matter of men fighting or not fighting. Peace, to have meaning for many who have known only suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health, and education, as well as freedom and human dignity - a steadily better life. If peace is to be secure, long-suffering and long-starved, forgotten peoples of the world, the underprivileged and the undernourished, must begin to realize without delay the promise of a new day and a new life.

  Ralph Bunche

  Education, Peace, Freedom

  "Some Reflections on Peace in Our Time". Ralph Bunche's Nobel lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1950.

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• Find something good within your life and give every ounce of positivity you have towards it, then watch how your life changes.

  Leon Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• Nothing goes to waste on the journey of life. Both good and bad experiences shape your mind and heart for what is to come.

  Leon Brown

  Life, Motivational, Baseball

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• You will fall many times in life, but you will pick yourself up and become stronger and wiser for each trouble you pass.

  Leon Brown

  Inspirational, Life, Baseball

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• This supposed to be yall year? We aint get the memo.

  Drake

  Humble, Rapper, Years

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• I'm in the mood to get faded, so please bring your finest.

  Drake

  Drinking, Humble, Rapper

  Song: Every Girl

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  If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

  Michael Jordan

  Motivational, Basketball, Running

  Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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• As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different from the cigarettes that I smoked as a young person up through a big chunk of my adult life. I don't think it is more dangerous than alcohol.

  Barack Obama

  Weed, Kids, Thinking

  "Obama: Marijuana no more dangerous than alcohol", www.foxnews.com. January 19, 2014.

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• I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me.

  Tracee Ellis Ross

  Inspirational, Learning, Positive Thinking

  FaceBook post by Tracee Ellis Ross from Jul 05, 2012

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• Whatever obstacles appear in your path, put your head down and get past them. Those obstacles aren't real. They're just God's way of testing you. He's asking you, 'Do you want to make it or not?'

  Russell Simmons

  Encouraging, God, Military

  Russell Simmons, Chris Morrow (2007). “Do You!: 12 Laws to Access the Power in You to Achieve Happiness and Success”, p.29, Penguin

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• We were so young, so in love, and so in debt.

  Michelle Obama

  Funny Love, Badass, Being In Love

  "Democratic convention courts youth vote with focus on student loans" by Adam Gabbatt, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2012.

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• Liberals love to say things like, "We're just asking everyone to pay their fair share." But government is not about asking. It is about telling. The difference is fundamental. It is the difference between making love and being raped, between working for a living and being a slave. The Internal Revenue service is not asking anybody to do anything. It confiscates your assets and puts you behind bars if you don't pay.

  Thomas Sowell

  Government, Differences, Making Love

  Thomas Sowell (1999). “Barbarians Inside the Gates--and Other Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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  You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can't go wrong. The world is behind you.

  Josephine Baker

  Inspirational, Happiness, Success

  "Hollywood Who's Who Marched With King in '63" by Carl M. Cannon, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 29, 2013.

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• The biggest hypocrites on gun control are those who live in upscale developments with armed security guards - and who want to keep other people from having guns to defend themselves. But what about lower-income people living in high-crime, inner city neighborhoods? Should such people be kept unarmed and helpless, so that limousine liberals can 'make a statement' by adding to the thousands of gun laws already on the books?

  Thomas Sowell

  Book, Hypocrite, Ghetto

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  I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Kings, Children

  Speech at Civil Rights March,Washington, D.C., 28 Aug. 1963

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• To be a slaveholder meant one had to regard the African American as inferior in every way.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Way, Slaveholders, Inferiors

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• A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.

  Pearl Bailey

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

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  Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.

  Coretta Scott King

  Inspiring, Freedom, Struggle

  Coretta Scott King, Rev. Dr. Barbara Reynolds (2017). “My Life, My Love, My Legacy”, p.330, Henry Holt and Company

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• Being black, I'm involved in the reparations movement. It's focused toward the African-American audience. We could begin to heal.

  Cassandra Wilson

  Black, Movement, Heal

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• Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.

  Xavier Becerra

  White, Community, Doe

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