African American Quotes - Page 9

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  We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.

  Barbara Jordan

  Inspirational, Acceptance, People

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• A moment of anger can destroy a lifetime of work, whereas a moment of love can break barriers that took a lifetime to build.

  Leon Brown

  Love, Work, Anger

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• I've always believed that I could do whatever I set my mind to do.

  Alice Coachman

  Inspirational, Success, Believe

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• I am convinced that the Black man will only reach his full potential when he learns to draw upon the strengths and insights of the Black woman.

  Manning Marable

  Strength, Women, Black

  Manning Marable (1988). “The Crisis of Color and Democracy: Essays on Race, Class, and Power”

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• We accepted education as the means to rise above the limitations that a prejudiced society endeavored to place upon us.

  Evelyn Boyd Granville

  Inspiring, Education, Mean

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• I firmly believe you never should spend your time being the former anything.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Time

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• God blessed me with a lot of heart and no height, and I'll take that any day.

  Nate Robinson

  God, Blessed, Heart

  FaceBook post by Nate Robinson from May 07, 2013

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• I believed that there was a God because I was told it by my grandmother and later by other adults. But when I found that I knew not only that there was God but that I was a child of God, when I understood that, when I comprehended that, more than that, when I internalized that, ingested that, I became courageous.

  Maya Angelou

  Faith, God, Christian

  "Maya Angelou discusses her faith, politics, courage ahead of LSU event next week". Interview with Chelsea Brasted, www.nola.com. February 13, 2013.

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• We feel the beauty of nature because we are part of nature and because we know that however much in our separate domains we abstract from the unity of Nature, this unity remains. Although we may deal with particulars, we return finally to the whole pattern woven out of these.

  Ernest Everett Just

  Beauty, Nature, Knowing

  Ernest Everett Just (1939). “The Biology of the Cell Surface”, Taylor & Francis

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• Just to settle it once and for all: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The egg, laid by a bird that was not a chicken.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Funny, Eggs, Bird

  Twitter post from Jan 29, 2013

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• Good English, well spoken and well written will open more doors than a college degree... Bad English will slam doors you don't even know exist.

  William Raspberry

  Education, Writing, Opportunity

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• Having courage does not mean that we are unafraid. Having courage and showing courage mean we face our fears. We are able to say, 'I have fallen, but I will get up.'

  Maya Angelou

  Encouraging, Courage, Fear

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• The awesome thing about failure is that it is only temporary. Embrace it, learn the lesson and come back blazing.

  Joel Brown

  Encouraging, Failure, Learning

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• Living
  consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and
  responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the
  moment.

  Sidney Poitier

  Honesty, Live In The Moment, Listening

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• The worst people on earth are not only those who commit evil, but those who stand by and turn a blind eye

  Emmanuel Jal

  Eye, People, Evil

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• The Holy Spirit upon my left leads my feet without ceasing into the camp of the righteous and into the tents of the free.

  Maya Angelou

  Faith, God, Christian

  Twitter post from Apr 30, 2014

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• Whenever you can't think of something to be grateful for, remember your breath. With each breath you take, you can say, 'I'm still here.' Make each day a holiday of thankfulness -and give yourself the gift of gratitude!

  Oprah Winfrey

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Grateful

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• In the dark times, if you have something to hold on to, which is yourself, you'll survive.

  Whoopi Goldberg

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Uplifting

  "Happy 60th Birthday, Whoopi Goldberg! Our Favorite Quotes From The Actress" by Jeryl Brunner, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 14, 2015.

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• I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.

  Ralph Abernathy

  Future, Kwanzaa, May

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• The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.

  Bill Cosby

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Time Flies”

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• I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, Athlete, Mean

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• I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.

  Denzel Washington

  Women, Opportunity, Thinking

  The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2000.

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

  Bonnie St. John

  Life, Women, Empowering

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