Memorable Black Quotes

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"What we need is not a cry for the freedom of the negro, but a cry for the freedom of the human spirit."
James Baldwin
"It is not the chances that we take that make us who we are, but the choices that we make."
Jesse Jackson
"The power of the people is greater than the people in power."
Unknown
"The soul that is within me no man can degrade."
Frederick Douglass
"I am where I am because of the bridges I have crossed."
Oprah Winfrey
"One day, when I was not so very far from the dawn of my own consciousness, I longed to be free."
Zora Neale Hurston
"I didn’t come to make people happy. I came to be who I am."
Nina Simone
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"I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better."
Frida Kahlo
"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can control your attitude toward them."
Brian Tracy
"It’s not just about the sport; it’s about the life. This is bigger than me."
Muhammad Ali
"The thing that separates a person from everything they want in life is the willingness to be uncomfortable."
Luvvie Ajayi
"We can’t all be stars, but we can all shine."
Unknown
"Black history is American history."
Unknown
"Dream like Martin. Lead like Harriet. Fight like Malcolm. Write like Maya."
Unknown
"We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society."
Angela Davis
"You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas."
Shirley Chisholm
"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."
Victor Frankl
"You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom."
Malcolm X
"It’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you play the game."
Joe Louis
"The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness."
Marcus Garvey
"We all have a responsibility to stand up for our beliefs and to fight for what is right."
Angela Davis
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"I have learned that 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
"Freedom is never given; it is won."
A. Philip Randolph
"In diversity there is beauty and there is strength."
Maya Angelou
"I want to be a writer, and I want to write for the people."
James Baldwin
"When they go low, we go high."
Michelle Obama
"We must use our voices, our power, and our strength to stand up for justice."
Kamala Harris
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any."
Alice Walker
"You have to make your own way in this world, love yourself, help others, and together we can bring about change."
Oprah Winfrey
"What we need is the sense of a common purpose."
Stokely Carmichael
"The only way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them."
Ida B. Wells
"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."
Nelson Mandela
"We must fight for our rights and for our lives."
Bobby Seale
"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope."
Maya Angelou
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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"A dream deferred is a dream denied."
Langston Hughes
"I am my ancestors' wildest dreams."
Unknown
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
Frederick Douglass
"The time is always right to do what is right."
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying."
Michael Jordan
"What we allow will continue."
Unknown
"The most disrespected person in America is the Black woman."
Malcolm X
"I stand on the shoulders of my ancestors."
Unknown
"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
"We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."
Maya Angelou
"You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas."
Shirley Chisholm
"Change is never easy, but always possible."
Barack Obama
"Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"It's not about how much you have, but how much you give."
Oprah Winfrey
"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"I am my own muse. The subject I know best, and the subject I want to better."
Frida Kahlo
"The Black man is a man of great dignity, great strength, and great wisdom."
Malcolm X
"You are your best thing."
Toni Morrison
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time."
James Baldwin
"The function of freedom is to free someone else."
Toni Morrison
"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Life is not a crystal stair."
Langston Hughes
"They don't make you feel inferior without your consent."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter their color."
Maya Angelou
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