Black History Quotes - Page 7

• If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

  Michael Jackson

  Relationship, Inspiring, Being Yourself

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Feb 27, 2017

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• Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

  Malcolm X

  Motivational, Change, Sad

  "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements". Book edited by George Breitman, 1965.

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• The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Children

  Marian Wright Edelman (2013). “The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours”, p.79, Beacon Press

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• Have a vision. Be demanding.

  Colin Powell

  Inspiring, Freedom, Business

  Colin Powell (2012). “It Worked for Me (Enhanced Edition): In Life and Leadership”, Harper Collins

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• Black History is enjoying the life of our ancestors who paved the way for every African-American. No matter what color you are, the history of Blacks affected everyone; that's why we should cherish and respect Black history. Black history changed America and is continuing to change and shape our country. Black history is about everyone coming together to better themselves and America. Black history is being comfortable in your own skin no matter what color you are. Black history makes me proud of where I came from and where I am going in life.

  Bernice Mosby

  Country, America, Color

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• Our goal was not freedom. Freedom was the necessary prerequisite to get to equality.

  Jesse Jackson

  Goal, Black, Prerequisites

  "Jesse Jackson: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 12, 2008.

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• Avoid fried meats which angry up the blood. If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts. Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move. Go very light on the vices, such as carrying on in society. The social ramble ain't restful. Avoid running at all times. Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

  Satchel Paige

  Running, Lying, Moving

  1976 'Six Rules for a Happy Life', which he had inscribed on business cards, offered to fans seeking his autograph.

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• Slowly we have lifeted ourselves by our own bootstraps. Step by halting step, we have beat our way back

  Roy Wilkins

  Way, Civil Rights, Steps

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• White America has seen to it that Black history has been suppressed in schools and in American history books. The bravery of hundreds of our ancestors who took part in slave rebellions has been lost in the mists of time, since plantation owners did their best to prevent any written accounts of uprisings.

  Huey Newton

  Book, School, Uprising

  Huey P. Newton (2009). “Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.158, Penguin

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• We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.

  Yvette Clarke

  Greatness, Achievement, African American

  "Black History Is American History" by Rep. Yvette D. Clarke, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 10, 2010.

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• Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.

  Pearl Bailey

  Inspirational Life, Circles, Ideas

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• A woman needs someone she can trust, someone who laughs when she laughs, but who has different ideas so she can learn from and teach to them. She needs someone who will stand up with her and encourage her to be a woman-not just a female. See where you are, admit what you know, and what you need, and search for a sister friend.

  Maya Angelou

  Ideas, Laughing, Female

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• We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Blood, Tears, Way

  Song: Lift Every Voice and Sing

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• An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.

  Langston Hughes

  Inspirational, Artist, Doe

  Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper, Langston Hughes (1996). “Not So Simple: The "Simple" Stories by Langston Hughes”, p.35, University of Missouri Press

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• The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not the result of force but of dedication, of moral persuasion.

  Steven Biko

  Perseverance, Lying, Dedication

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• My grandmother's grandparents were slaves. My grandmother Big Mama would tell me about the stories she heard as a child growing up in the shadows of a North Carolina plantation. It's only been in my lifetime that blacks have had the right to vote, live in certain areas or hold certain jobs. It is with this black history that I write about the financial challenges African-Americans still have.

  Michelle Singletary

  Jobs, Children, Growing Up

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I almost never do anything for Black History Month, because I feel it's just another way to separate us.

  Alice Walker

  Black

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.

  Kenneth Clark

  Motivational, Attitude, Inspiration

  Kenneth Clark (2015). “Civilisation”, p.220, Hachette UK

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• In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.

  Alex Haley

  Writing, Alex, Praise

  "A Kwanzaa Celebration" by Angela Shelf Medearis, (p. 154), 1995.

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• One of the things I recognized early on, doing whatever studies of black history I have, is that even though black folks were transported as slaves, into servitude, when they were carried out of Africa they left empty-handed, but they didn't leave empty-headed. They carried with them the culture they knew, the culture they had, and that culture reconstituted itself in all the places they went.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Culture, Study, Slave

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Just like you can buy grades of silk, you can buy grades of justice.

  Ray Charles

  Justice, Like You, Grades

  Ray Charles, David Ritz (2004). “Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story”, p.200, Da Capo Press

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• We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!!

  Frederick Douglass

  Motivational, May, Self Made Man

  Frederick Douglass (2011). “In the Words of Frederick Douglass: Quotations from Liberty’s Champion”, p.230, Cornell University Press

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• It is the mind that makes the body.

  Sojourner Truth

  Positive, Truth, Health

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• Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your dues - which takes years.

  Alex Haley

  Writing, Years, Appreciate

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• We intend to make this world the most beautiful, glorious planet that any human being can imagine and, really, beyond anything any human being can imagine.

  Hafsat Abiola

  Beautiful, World, Imagine

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