I really don’t think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don’t mind the failure but I can’t imagine that I’d forgive myself if I didn’t try. Nikki Giovanni, Poet, Activist, Educator Continue reading
Black is powerful. Langston Hughes, 1902-1967, Lincoln University ’29, Poet, Social Activist, Novelist Continue reading
Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me. Zora Neale Hurston, Author, Folklorist, Anthropologist Continue reading
If our people are to fight their way up out of bondage we must arm them with the sword and the shield and the buckler of pride. Mary McLeod Bethune, (1875-1955), Barber-Scotia Class of 1894, College President, Women’s and Civil Rights Activist Continue reading
You are young, gifted, and Black. We must begin to tell our young, There’s a world waiting for you, Yours is the quest that’s just begun. James Weldon Johnson, Atlanta University 1894, Author, Diplomat & Poet Continue reading
Leadership is found in the action to defeat that which would defeat you. You are made by the struggles you choose. Reverend C.T. Vivian, Minister, Author, Civil Rights Activist, Organizer Continue reading
If a man hasn’t discovered something he will die for, he isn’t fit to live. Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., (1929-1968) Pastor, Civil Rights Activist, Morehouse College ’48 Continue reading
We have the responsibility to carry the fire. Whether it’s in our stomachs or on the ends of our torches. Amiri Baraka (1934-2014), Poet, Playwright, Scholar Continue reading
I won’t rest until black children are taught to love themselves as themselves. Frances Cress Welsing Psychiatrist, Activist, Author Continue reading
Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.” Oprah Winfrey,Media Mogul, Talk Show Host, Actress, Philanthropist Continue reading
