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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• I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love – for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Life, Positive

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jan 26, 2013

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• Baby, we have no choice of what color we're born or who our parents are or whether we're rich or poor. What we do have is some choice over what we make of our lives once we're here.

  Mildred D. Taylor

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Mildred D. Taylor (2004). “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Puffin Modern Classics)”, p.96, Penguin

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• Wealth can also be that attitude of gratitude with which we remind ourselves everyday to count our blessings.

  Chris Gardner

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Attitude

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• I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives.

  Tracy Chapman

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive

  Howard Thurman

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• If you allow yourself to breathe into the depth, wonder, beauty, craziness, and strife everything that represents the fullness of your life you can live fearlessly. Because you come to realize that if you just keep breathing, you cannot be conquered

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Beauty, Breathing

  FaceBook post by Oprah Winfrey from Aug 26, 2011

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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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• In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Strength, Beauty

  Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wit and Wisdom of Maya Angelou”, p.9, Hachette UK

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  Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Twitter post from Feb 03, 2011

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• We do not believe that in this country, freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the few.

  Barack Obama

  Happiness, Happy, Country

  President Obama's Inaugural Address, www.foxnews.com. January 21, 2013.

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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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• Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.

  Marva Collins

  Happiness, Success, Suicide

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• Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.

  dream hampton

  Inspirational, Relationship, People

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• Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going.

  Wes Montgomery

  Music, Play, Jazz

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• I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.

  Septima Poinsette Clark

  Peace, Creativity, Thinking

  Septima Poinsette Clark (1990). “Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement”

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• Word on road is the clique about to blow. You ain't gotta run and tell nobody they already know

  Drake

  Running, Real, Humble

  Song: Good Ones Go, 2011

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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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  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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