Memorable Old Black Quotes

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"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'"
Martin Luther King Jr.
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
Henry David Thoreau
"I am my own best friend."
Alice Walker
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."
Albert Schweitzer
"Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself."
Alice Walker
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
Frederick Douglass
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"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."
Alice Walker
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I am not an accident. I am a child of God."
Angela Davis
"I have always believed that fashion was not only to make women look beautiful, but also to show how they feel about themselves."
Anna Wintour
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Resistance is the secret of joy."
Alice Walker
"Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy."
Wayne Dyer
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Every great dream begins with a dreamer."
Harriet Tubman
"The greatest way to honor a woman is to let her be herself."
Oprah Winfrey
"I am not a man, I am a number."
John Henry
"I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
Maya Angelou
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."
Maya Angelou
"The function of freedom is to free someone else."
Toni Morrison
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"It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength."
Maya Angelou
"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."
Toni Morrison
"I am my best work - a series of road maps, reports, and videos spanning decades."
Toni Morrison
"What the Negro wants is to be treated equally, to be respected and loved."
James Baldwin
"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."
James Baldwin
"The world is not a room service. It is not a star for you to sleep on."
James Baldwin
"I can't believe what you say because I see what you do."
James Baldwin
"All art is a kind of confession."
James Baldwin
"We are all we have, and we are all we need."
W. E. B. Du Bois
"The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression."
W. E. B. Du Bois
"Education is that which must transform society."
W. E. B. Du Bois
"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line."
W. E. B. Du Bois
"There is no pain, there is no gain."
Toni Morrison
"Make a way out of no way."
Ella Baker
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"A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything."
Malcolm X
"You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom."
Malcolm X
"To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a state of rage almost all the time."
James Baldwin
"I am my own master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul."
William Ernest Henley
"You can't be afraid of what people are going to say, because you're never going to make everyone happy."
Will Smith
"I have learned that if you love life, life will love you back."
Arthur Rubinstein
"The future belongs to those who prepare for it today."
Malcolm X
"If you don’t have a seat at the table, you’re probably on the menu."
Elizabeth Warren
"What we seek we shall find; what we seek is blind."
James Baldwin
"I am my own something, to hold higher than my title."
Toni Morrison
"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."
Maya Angelou
"Dreams are the touchstones of our character."
Henry Davis Thoreau
"It is not our diversity which divides us; it is not our ethnicity, or religion, or culture that divides us... It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences."
Audre Lorde
"A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots."
Marcus Garvey
"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."
Helen Keller
"I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying."
Michael Jordan
"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"The only time is now; the only place is here."
Barbara Jordan
"You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say."
Martin Luther
"There is power in understanding the journey of others to help create your own."
Allyson Felix
"It’s not where you start but how high you aim that matters for success."
Nelson Mandela
"Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
Nelson Mandela
"I am my ancestors' wildest dreams."
Unknown
"The time is always right to do what is right."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Freedom is never given; it is won."
A. Philip Randolph
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"What we need is not a new leader but a new way of thinking."
Unknown
"If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything."
Malcolm X
"I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best."
Frida Kahlo
"It is not our diversity which divides us; it is not our ethnicity, or religion, or culture that divides us."
Audre Lorde
"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can control your attitude toward them."
Brian Tracy
"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."
Nelson Mandela
"We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated."
Maya Angelou
"No one can dim the light which shines from within."
Maya Angelou
"You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless they have their freedom."
Malcolm X
"The soul that is within me no man can degrade."
Frederick Douglass
"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome."
Booker T. Washington
"Change is never easy, but always possible."
Barack Obama
"We have a responsibility to speak up for those who are not heard."
Shirley Chisholm
"A dream deferred is a dream denied."
Langston Hughes
"It's not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable."
Molière
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"We must not allow other peoples' limited perceptions to define us."
Virginia Satir
"I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."
Morgan Freeman
"To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time."
James Baldwin
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
Maya Angelou
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'"
Martin Luther King Jr.
"You can't be afraid to speak up and speak out for what you believe."
John Lewis
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