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Source: The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours

“Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us.”

“The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down.”

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Author:Thurgood Marshall

“What is possible for me is possible for you.”

Liberty Black History

Author:Frederick Douglass

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

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Author:Eldridge Cleaver

“Let us not become the evil that we deplore.”

Evil Black History

Author:Barbara Lee

“The power of a movement lies in the fact that it can indeed change the habits of people. This change is not the result of force but of dedication, of moral persuasion.”

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Author:Steven Biko

“I have a dream, and a plan, to combine the commercial possibilities of Valentine's Day with the substance and meaning of black history month. I call it: Blackentine's Day.”

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Author:Mo Rocca

“And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?”

“We intend to make this world the most beautiful, glorious planet that any human being can imagine and, really, beyond anything any human being can imagine.”

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Author:Hafsat Abiola

“Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your dues - which takes years.”

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Author:Alex Haley

“It is the mind that makes the body.”

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Author:Sojourner Truth

“Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.”

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Author:Quincy Jones

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

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Author:Arthur Ashe

“Just like you can buy grades of silk, you can buy grades of justice.”

Justice Like You Grades Black History Silk

Book:Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story

Source: Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story

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

Source: Time Flies

“Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.”

“They oughtta change Black History Month to Black Progress Month and start measuring it.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Bring on your tear gas, bring on your grenades, your new supplies of Mace, your state troopers and even your national guards. But let the record show we ain't going to be turned around.”

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Author:Ralph Abernathy

“We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!!”

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Book:In the Words of Frederick Douglass: Quotations from Liberty’s Champion

Source: In the Words of Frederick Douglass: Quotations from Liberty’s Champion

“There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution”

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Author:Frederick Douglass

“As long as we are not ourselves, we will try to be what other people are.”

People Trying Long Black Black History

Book:Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman

Source: Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman

“Miracles happen all the time. We're here, aren't we?”

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Author:Marilyn Nelson

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

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Author:Mae Jemison

“I don't believe in fear - I live my life without regrets.”

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Author:Puff Daddy

“This being Black History Month, I would like to ask people to celebrate the similarities and not focus on the differences between people of color and not of color.”

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Author:Lynn Swann

“Whereas our ancestors (not of choice) were the first successful cultivators of the wilds of America, we their descendants feel ourselves entitled to participate in the blessings of her luxuriant soil.”

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Author:Richard Allen

“Whilst so much is being done in the world, to ameliorate the condition of mankind, and the spirit of Freedom is marching with rapid strides and causing tyrants to tremble, may America awake from the apathy in which she has long slumbered.”

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Author:James Forten

“The burden of being black is that you have to be superior just to be equal. But the glory of it is that, once you achieve, you have achieved, indeed.”

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Author:Jesse Jackson

“Many of us in Nashville accepted nonviolence as a way of life, a way of living, not simply as a technique or a tactic.”

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Author:John Lewis

“No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin.”

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Book:Beyond Racism: Building an Open Society

Source: Beyond Racism: Building an Open Society

“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

“Ancient Egypt was a Negro Civilization. The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in air and cannot be written correctly until African historians dare to connect it with the history of Egypt.”

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Book:The African Origin of Civilization: Myth Or Reality

Source: The African Origin of Civilization: Myth Or Reality

“We’ve gone through the names—Negro, African American, African, Black. For me that’s an indication of a people still trying to find their identity. Who determines what is black?”

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Author:Spike Lee

“The potential for greatness lives within us all.”

“In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.”

Writing Praise Black History Alex

Author:Alex Haley

“The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.”

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Author:Ruby Dee

“White America has seen to it that Black history has been suppressed in schools and in American history books. The bravery of hundreds of our ancestors who took part in slave rebellions has been lost in the mists of time, since plantation owners did their best to prevent any written accounts of uprisings.”

Source: Revolutionary Suicide: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“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

“We have come over a way that with tears has been watered, We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered.”

Way Has Beens Black Path Blood Tears Black History Treading

Author:James Weldon Johnson

“Anger, used, does not destroy. Hatred does.”

Doe Used Black Hatred Black History

Author:Audre Lorde

“What's shaking, chiefy baby?”

Black Baby Black History Shaking

Author:Thurgood Marshall

“American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen.”

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Book:Playing in the Dark

Source: Playing in the Dark

“If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find out what people are going to think about it, you're going to limit yourself. That's a very strange way to live.”

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Author:Jessye Norman

“Avoid fried meats which angry up the blood. If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts. Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move. Go very light on the vices, such as carrying on in society. The social ramble ain't restful. Avoid running at all times. Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.”

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Author:Satchel Paige

“I could depend a lot on my shaking, though I never shimmied vulgarly and only to express myself.”

Black Depends Black History Shaking

Author:Ethel Waters

“I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit.”

Source: Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells

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

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Book:Race Matters

Source: Race Matters

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