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“The acceptance of the facts of African-American history and the African-American historian as a legitimate part of the academic community did not come easily. Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact.”

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Author:John Henrik Clarke

“You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.”

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Author:Eldridge Cleaver

“Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.”

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Author:Arthur Ashe

“Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations.”

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Author:Mae Jemison

“I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all.”

Source: I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

“The potential for greatness lives within us all.”

“You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.”

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Author:Frederick Douglass

“Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land.”

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Book:Race Matters

Source: Race Matters

“Hate is too great a burden to bear.”

“Knowing what must be done does away with fear.”

Book:Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation

Source: Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation

“We are the ones we've been waiting for.”

Author:June Jordan

“For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.”

“I am the dream and the hope of the slave”

Source: Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women

“Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”