Honoring Black History

Black History month is a beautiful time to honor those who came before us and paved the way for equality for all. Let us take a look at famous black quotes and maybe something will be said to inspire.

Famous Black Quotes

Michael Jordan, NBA Basketball Player: "I've failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed"~

Martin Luther King Jr. Civil Rights Leader: "The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character is the goal of true education"~

Dorothy Heights, American civil rights and women's rights activist: "I want to be remembered as someone who used herself, and anything she could touch to work for justice and freedom. I want to be remembered as one who tried"~

Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States: "A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things"~

Malcolm X, African American Muslim minister, and human rights activist: "If you have no critics, you'll likely have no success"~ "The future belongs to those who prepare for it today"~

George Washington Carver, American agricultural scientist, and inventor: "Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater"~

Maya Angelou, American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist: "Won't it be wonderful when Black History, and Native American History, and Jewish History and all of U.S. History is taught from one book just U.S. History"~

Booker T. Washington, American educator, author, orator, and adviser: "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 had to overcome while trying to succeed"~

Cicely Tyson, American actress, and fashion model: "Challenges make you discover things about yourself you never really knew"~

Marcus Garvey, Jamaican political activist, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator: "A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture is like a tree without roots"~

Muhammad Ali, American professional boxer, activist, entertainer, and philanthropist: "He who is not courageous enough to take risk will accomplish nothing in life"~

Rosa Parks, American activist in the civil rights movement: "I had no idea history was being made. I was only just of giving up"~

Alice Walker, American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist: "The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any"~

Nelson Mandela, South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader, and philanthropist: " If you want the cooperation of humans around you, you must make them feel they are important, and you do that by being genuine and humble"~

Harriet Tubman, American abolitionist, and political activist: "If you hear the dogs, Keep going. If you see the torches in the woods. Keep going. If there's shouting after you, Keep going. Do not ever stop. If you want a taste of freedom, Keep going"~

Coretta Scott King, American author, activist, civil rights leader, and the wife of Martin Luther King Jr.: "It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you do not use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, a-part of the problem"~

Madam CJ Walker, African American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political and social activist: "Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them!"~

Frederick Douglas, American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman: "You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man"~

Black history is liberating as you take a journey through the minds of those who came before us, it's inspiring when you revisit your past for necessary reasons, that help you identify with where you come from and understanding where you are headed. Our ancestors fought a good fight. Their blood sweat and tears afforded us a better life. Although, we still have a long way to go, and are still fighting injustices, never give up! Change must come; trouble doesn't last always. Keep fighting. Hey, you like what you read? send a tip, to keep it going. Ciao.