African American Quotes - Page 10

• You were put here to protect us.
  But who protects us from you?

  KRS-One

  Rap, Hip Hop, Police

  Song: Who Protects Us from You?, Album: Ghetto Music: The Blueprint Of Hip Hop (BDP)

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• I never ever ran from the Ku Klux Klan, and I shouldn't have to run from a black man.

  Kool Moe Dee

  Running, Rap, Men

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• Music is the universal language.

  Swizz Beatz

  Music, Art, Hip Hop

  "10 questions for 'Far East Movement'". Rap-Up Interview, www.rap-up.com. October 12, 2010.

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• If you can be the best, then why not try to be the best?

  Garrett Morgan

  Success, Trying, Why Not

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• It's your life... why not fill it with as much joy as possible?

  Bonnie St. John

  Life, Women, Empowering

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• I have to go 150 percent or nothing at all.

  Patti LaBelle

  Success, Giving, Entrepreneur

  FaceBook post by Patti LaBelle from Feb 05, 2013

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• Don't let anything stop you. There will be times when you'll be disappointed, but you can't stop. Make yourself the best that you can make out of what you are. The very best.

  Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander

  Motivational, Moving On, Success

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• Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Kings, Kids

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• I am intrigued with combining the remnant of memories, fragments of relics and ordinary objects, with the components of technology. It's a way of delving into the past and reaching into the future simultaneously.

  Betye Saar

  Art, Memories, Future

  Betye Saar, James Christen Steward, University of Michigan. Museum of Art, Norton Museum of Art (2005). “Betye Saar: extending the frozen moment”, University of California Press

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• Never mind what haters say, ignore them 'til they fade away.

  T.I.

  Inspirational, Hater, Rap

  Song: Live Your Life

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• You can take back all the things you give,
  But you can't take back the days you live.
  Life is to some people who've been on earth
  Livin' every single day for what it's worth.
  I live life just how I please,
  Satisfy one person I know: that's me.

  Too $hort

  Life, Song, Rap

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• Happy white peoples independence day the slaves weren't free but I'm sure they enjoyed fireworks.

  Chris Rock

  4th Of July, Holiday, White

  Twitter post from Jul 04, 2012

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• I believe unconditionally in the ability of people to respond when they are told the truth. We need to be taught to study rather than believe, to inquire rather than to affirm.

  Septima Poinsette Clark

  Inspirational, Truth, Believe

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• Poor people have been voting for Democrats for the last 50 years and they're still poor.

  Charles Barkley

  Years, People, Political

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• Hey, I know it's Monday, but it's also a new day, a new week and in that lies a new opportunity for something special to happen.

  Michael Ealy

  Inspirational, Monday, Lying

  Twitter post from Jun 4, 2012

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• I think if you're open-minded, the road will take you where it takes you. If you're closed, you might not get to go where the road is heading.

  Russell Simmons

  Running, Journey, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Russell Simmons from Sep 20, 2015

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• I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

  Maya Angelou

  Respect, Black Women, Phenomenal Woman

  Twitter post from Nov 23, 2015

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• I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down; because I knocked all of them down.

  Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander

  Doors, Way, Lawyer

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• When you hear music, after it's over, it's gone, in the air. You can never capture it again.

  Eric Dolphy

  Music, Air, Gone

  Holiday magazine, Vol. 58,p. 13, 1977.

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• You know somethin', man? Some day I'm gonna be walkin' up the street one way and you're gonna be comin' down the other way, and we're gonna pass each other and I'm gonna say 'Hello, best white band in the world' and you're gonna say 'Hello, best colored band in the world.

  Chick Webb

  Inspirational, Change, Men

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• This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Dec 17, 2010

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• A man is a man, until that man finds a plan, a plan that makes that man, a new man

  Dred Scott

  Change, Men, People Changing

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• Africans and persons of African descent must assume the primary responsibility and leadership in historical research....if we are to continue to leave practically all important historical research and writing concerning the black race to the white man, then we must be prepared to accept, uncomplainingly, the white man's point of view.

  Chancellor Williams

  Leadership, Responsibility, Writing

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• When I was at Baylor, I wasn't fully happy because I couldn't be all the way out. It feels so good saying it: I am a strong, black lesbian woman.

  Brittney Griner

  Happy, Strong, Women

  "Owning The Middle". Article by Kate Fagan, www.espn.com. May 29, 2013.

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• You just try to do everything that comes up. Get up an hour earlier, stay up an hour later, make the time. Then you look back and say, ‘Well, that was a neat piece of juggling there -- school, marriage, babies, career.’ The enthusiasms took me through the action, not the measuring of it or the reasonableness.

  Ruby Dee

  Marriage, Baby, Children

  "Breaking: Legendary Actress Ruby Dee Has Died at Age 91, Family Says" by Tambay A. Obenson, www.indiewire.com. June 12, 2014.

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