African American Quotes

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  In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe.

  Michael Jackson

  Inspirational, Dream, Hate

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Feb 01, 2017

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• It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

  Whitney M. Young

  Inspirational, Opportunity, Preparation

  "Independent Lens: The Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight for Civil Rights". TV Series, 2013.

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• Do not worry about the past or the future. This moment needs your attention, for this is where your life exists.

  Leon Brown

  Life, Baseball, Future

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• Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

  James A. Baldwin

  Inspirational, Change, Leadership

  "As Much Truth As One Can Bear". The New York Times Book Review, January 14, 1962.

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• Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.

  Maya Angelou

  Encouraging, Courage, Bravery

  Twitter post from Feb 03, 2016

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• It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

  Audre Lorde

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Equality

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• It's easy to do anything in victory. It's in defeat that a man reveals himself.

  Floyd Patterson

  Sports, Men, Mma

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• Step through new doors. The majority of the time there's something fantastic on the other side.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Change, Travel

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  A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

  Jackie Robinson

  Inspirational, Life, Basketball

  "I Never Had It Made: An Autobiography of Jackie Robinson". Book by Jackie Robinson and Alfred Duckett, 1972.

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• It's not what you achieve in life, but who you become as a person due to those achievements.

  Curtis Martin

  Life, Achievement, Becoming

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• Your life is a product of your thoughts, what you think about all day becomes the basis of your life.

  Leon Brown

  Life, Baseball, Thinking

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• Mistakes are the stepping stones to wisdom, we learn from trial & error, we become wise by understanding problems.

  Leon Brown

  Life, Wise, Baseball

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• Listen to yourself, not the noise of the world. Only you know what is right for you.

  Leon Brown

  Life, Baseball, Knowing

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• Always focus on your effort, instead of the results of that effort.

  Russell Simmons

  Work, Effort, Focus

  Twitter post from Dec 15, 2016

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• Use me, God. Show me how to take who I am, who I want to be, and what I can do, and use it for a purpose greater than myself.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  God, Christian, Religious

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  One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don't invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

  Michelle Obama

  Inspirational, Badass, Who I Am

  Michelle Obama, Lisa Rogak (2009). “Michelle Obama: In Her Own Words”, p.40, PublicAffairs

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• He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  Twitter post from Jan 09, 2011

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  Deal with yourself as a individual, worthy of respect and make everyone else deal with you the same way.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Inspirational, Happiness, Inspiring

  Nikki Giovanni (1994). “Racism 101”, William Morrow & Co

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  Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Inspiring, Happiness, Success

  Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.155, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• To succeed, you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.

  Tony Dorsett

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Tony Dorsett, Harvey Frommer (1989). “Running tough: memoirs of a football maverick”, Doubleday Books

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• The truth is... everything counts. Everything. Everything we do and everything we say. Everything helps or hurts; everything adds to or takes away from someone else.

  Countee Cullen

  Hurt, Truth, Poetry

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  Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

  Satchel Paige

  Thanksgiving, Thank You, Baseball

  Quoted in Deirdre Mullane, Words to Make My Dream Children Live: A Book of African American Quotations (1995)

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• I'm a lover not a fighter.

  Michael Jackson

  Love, Romantic, Basketball

  Song: The Girl Is Mine W Paul Mccartney, Album: Thriller, 1982

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  Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2012). “A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings”, p.67, Beacon Press

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• I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.

  Rosa Parks

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Tired

  Rosa Parks, Gregory J. Reed (1994). “Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation”, Zondervan

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