Nikki Giovanni Quote

"We love because it's the only true adventure."
Nikki Giovanni

King Solomon Hearn Quote

“This precious moment that I am living in
is the most essential part of my life!”
King Solomon Hearn

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Quote

“I won't have any money to leave behind.
I won't have the fine and luxurious things
of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave
a committed life behind.” Dr. Martin Luther King

Dr. Maulana Karenga Quote

“No part of our legacy is more valuable than the unique ethical teaching of the Odu Ifa,
the sacred text of our Yoruba ancestors, that we and all humans are divinely chosen
to bring good into the world and that this is the fundamental meaning and mission of human life.”
Dr. Maulana Karenga

Jesse Jackson Quote

"One chance is all you need."
Jesse Owens

Rosa Parks Quote

"Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others."
Rosa Parks

Sojourner Truth Quote

"If women want any rights more than they's got,
why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it."
Sojourner Truth

George Washington Carver Quote

"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way,
you will command the attention of the world."
George Washington Carver

Nina Simone Quote

"Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music."
Nina Simone

Denzel Washington Quote

"I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything
that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together.
And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially."
Denzel Washington

Fannie Lou Hamer Quote

"Nobody's free until everybody's free."
Fannie Lou Hamer

Angela Davis Quote

"Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about
the objective forces at work in the socity in which they live,
but also about the intensity social character of their interior lives.
Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation."
Angela Davis

Bill Cosby Quote

"Sex education may be a good idea in the schools,
but I don't believe the kids should be given homework."
Bill Cosby

Maya Angelou Quote

“Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater.”
Maya Angelou

Michelle Obama U.S. First Lady United States First Lady Quote

“I believe that each of us--no matter what our age or background or walk of life
--each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation.”
Michelle Obama U.S. First Lady United States First Lady

Condoleeza Rice Quote

“Find what you love to do. Find your passion.
Know what makes you want to get up in the morning,
that's all you need.” Condoleeza Rice

Bob Marley Quote

“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery; none but ourselves can free our mind.”
Bob Marley

Dr. Maulana Karenga Quote

“As we move into the next decade and new era, no lesson is more important for us to learn
from our history and culture than our need to recognize our interrelatedness as a people
and part of humanity and our parallel need to establish and put in wider to practice an ethics
of sharing which recognizes and builds on this interrelatedness in the most positive and mutually
beneficial ways. In fact, this is an indispensable way to fulfill and further our moral
obligation to constantly bring good into the world.” Dr. Maulana Karenga

Gwendolyn Brooks Quote

“Very early in life I became fascinated
with the wonders language can achieve.
And I began playing with words.”
Gwendolyn Brooks

Sterling Brown Quote

“Propaganda, however legitimate, can speak no louder than the truth.”
Sterling Brown

Marian Anderson Quote

“I suppose I might insist on making issues of things.
But that is not my nature, and I always bear in mind
that my mission is to leave behind me the kind of impression
that will make it easier for those who follow.”
Marian Anderson

Stokley Carmichael Quote

“There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.”
Stokley Carmichael

Sterling Brown Quote

“Propaganda, however legitimate, can speak no louder than the truth.”
Sterling Brown

Marian Anderson Quote

“I suppose I might insist on making issues of things.
But that is not my nature, and I always bear in mind
that my mission is to leave behind me the kind of impression
that will make it easier for those who follow.”
Marian Anderson

Josephine Baker Quote

“The things we truly love stay with us always,
locked in our hearts as long as life remains.”
Josephine Baker

Ed Bradley Quote

“The people in your life are important.
Meaningful relationships with those people
are very important.” Ed Bradley

Stokley Carmichael Quote

“The first need of a free people is to define their own terms.”
Stokley Carmichael

Dr. Molefi Asante Quote

“A wise person speaks carefully and with truth,
for every word that passes between one's teeth is meant for something.”
Dr. Molefi Asante

Ella Baker Quote

“Give light and people will find the way.”
Ella Baker

President Barack Obama Quote

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time.
We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
President Barack Obama

Rosa Parks Quote

“I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up”
Rosa Parks

Michael Jackson Quote

“If you enter this world knowing you are loved
and you leave this world knowing the same,
then everything that happens in between
can be dealt with.” Michael Jackson

W.E.B. Dubois Quote

“One thing alone I charge you. As you live, believe in life!
Always human beings will live and progress to greater,
broader and fuller life. The only possible death is to
lose belief in this truth simply because the great end
comes slowly, because time is long.” W.E.B. Dubois

Nikki Giovanni Quote

“Some say we are responsible for those we love.
Others know we are responsible for those who love us.”
Nikki Giovanni

Madam C.J. Walker Quote

“I had to make my opportunity… Don’t sit down and wait for the
opportunities to come; you have to get up and make them.”
Madame C. J. Walker

George Washington Carver Quote

“When you do common things in life
in an uncommon way
you will command
the attention of the world.”
George Washington Carver

Maya Angelou Quote

“How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!”
Maya Angelou

Wangari Maathai Quote

“We can work together for a better world with men and women of goodwill,
those who radiate the intrinsic goodness of humankind.
To do so effectively, the world needs a global ethic with values
which give meaning to life experiences and, more than religious institutions and dogmas,
sustain the non-material dimension of humanity. Mankind's universal values of love,
compassion, solidarity, caring and tolerance should form the basis for this global ethic
which should permeate culture, politics, trade, religion and philosophy.
It should also permeate the extended family of the United Nations.” Wangari Maathai

Dwayne Alvin Hearn Quote

“Being at peace along with self-love are key ingredients for creating true love.”
Dwayne Alvin Hearn

Maya Angelou Quote

“If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.”
Maya Angelou

Malcolm X Quote

“If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.”
Malcolm X

Angela Davis Quote

“No march, movement, or agenda that defines manhood
in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners
in this quest for equality can be considered a positive step.”
Angela Davis

Stanley Crouch Quote

“The point is, you have an ethnic heritage and you have a human heritage.
Your human heritage includes everything of human value.”
Stanley Crouch

Dwayne Alvin Hearn Quote

“All that I really have is this precious moment that I am living in.”
Dwayne Alvin Hearn

Ella Baker Quote

“Give light and people will find the way.”
Ella Baker

Oprah Winfrey Quote

“Self-esteem means knowing that you are the dream.”
Oprah Winfrey

Maya Angelou Quote

"I believe in living a poetic life, an art full life.
Everything we do from the way we raise our children
to the way we welcome our friends
is part of a large canvas we are creating."
Maya Angelou

Alice Walker Quote

"Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise."
Alice Walker

Booker T. Washington Quote

"A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said,
when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity."
Booker T. Washington

Dwayne Alvin Hearn Quote

“You want to discover true love, start with loving yourself.”
Dwayne Alvin Hearn

Dwayne Alvin Hearn Quote

“The fact that I know that you love and care about me
is the only gift that I need on this day or any other day!”
Dwayne Alvin Hearn

Dwayne Alvin Hearn Quote

"It's really important to remember of this day and every day that:
True love always begins with self-love."
Dwayne A Hearn

Alice Walker Quote

“I have learned not to worry about love;
but to honor its coming with all my heart.”
Alice Walker

Bell Hooks Quote

“Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books.”
Bell Hooks

Dr. Maulana Karenga Quote

“It is Martin King who taught that a real moral struggle
seeks to win partners, not to leave victims.”
Dr. Maulana Karenga

Oprah Winfrey Quote

“Yes, there are many things that need to get done,
but in this moment I have to do nothing.”
Oprah Winfrey

Langston Hughes Quote

“I have discovered in life that there are ways
of getting almost anywhere you want to go,
if you really want to go.” Langston Hughes

Maya Angelou Quote

“My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry;
to get my work done and try to love somebody
and have the courage to accept the love in return.”
Maya Angelou

The Reverend Jesse Jackson Quote

“Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up.”
The Reverend Jesse Jackson

Betty Shabazz Quote

“We can say "Peace on Earth." We can sing about it, preach about it or pray about it,
but if we have not internalized the mythology to make it happen inside us, then it will not be.”
Betty Shabazz

Maya Angelou Quote

“Nothing will work unless you do.”
Maya Angelou

Muhammad Ali Quote

“I am America. I am the part you won't recognize.
But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky;
my name, not yours; my religion, not yours;
my goals, my own; get used to me.” Muhammad Ali

Angela Davis Quote

“To understand how any society functions
you must understand the relationship
between the men and the women.” Angela Davis

James Earl Jones

“When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons,
I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater
than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.”
James Earl Jones

Tradition African Prayer

“Let us take care of the children,
for they have a long way to go.
Let us take care of the elders,
for they have come a long way.
Let us take care of those in between,
for they are doing the work.”
Tradition African Prayer

Dwayne Alvin Hearn Quote

I know that without self-love there is no concept of true love.”
Dwayne Alvin Hearn

Audre Lorde Quote

“What we have to do must be done in the now.”
Audre Lorde

Arthur Ashe Quote

“You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it
is more important than winning or losing.”
Arthur Ashe

Oprah Winfrey Quote

“I want to squeeze every last drop out of life,
but I'm only interested in more time if it can be filled
with meaning and joy and creative thinking.
In other words, I'd like to hang on to my energy and focus
for as long as humanly possible...and then some.”
Oprah Winfrey

Audre Lorde Quote

“What we have to do must be done in the now.”
Audre Lorde

Arthur Ashe Quote

“You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it
is more important than winning or losing.”
Arthur Ashe

Oprah Winfrey Quote

“I want to squeeze every last drop out of life,
but I'm only interested in more time if it can be filled
with meaning and joy and creative thinking.
In other words, I'd like to hang on to my energy and focus
for as long as humanly possible...and then some.”
Oprah Winfrey

Katherine Dunham Quote

“I used to want the words “She tried” on my tombstone.
Now I want “She did it.” Katherine Dunham

Arthur Ashe Quote

“One important key to success is self-confidence.
An important key to self-confidence is preparation.”
Arthur Ashe

Maya Angelou Quote

“I believe that every person is born with talent.”
Maya Angelou

Kofi Annan Quote

“More countries have understood that women's equality
is a prerequisite for development.” Kofi Annan

Ray Charles Quote

“There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First,
we’re here to explore new possibilities.” Ray Charles

Zora Neal Hurston

“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
Zora Neal Hurston

Langston Hughes Quote

“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die,
life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.”
Langston Hughes

King Solomon Hearn Quote

“I intend to always have the courage to change.”
King Solomon Hearn

Imamu Amiri Baracka

“To name something is to wait for it in the place you think it will pass.”
Imamu Amiri Baracka

U.S. Congresswoman Barbra Jordan

“One thing is clear to me:
We, as human beings,
must be willing to accept people
who are different from ourselves.”
U.S. Congresswoman Barbra Jordan

Malcolm X Quote

“The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.”
Malcolm X

Frederick Douglass Quote

“We have to do with the past
only as we can make it useful
to the present and the future.”
Frederick Douglass

Iyanla Vanzant Quote

“Plan your hours to be productive?
Plan your weeks to be educational?
Plan your years to be purposeful.
Plan your life to be an experience of growth.
Plan to change. Plan to grow.”
Iyanla Vanzant

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Quote

“Everybody can be great because anybody can serve.
You don't have to have college degree to serve.
You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve.
You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.”
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Zina Garrison Quote

“A positive attitude
can really make dreams come true -
it did for me.”Zina Garrison

Nelson Mandela Quote

“As we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people
permission to do the same.”
Nelson Mandela

Maya Angelou Quote

“My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry;
to get my work done and try to love somebody
and have the courage to accept the love in return.”
Maya Angelou

Angela Davis Quote

“We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.”
Angela Davis

Benjamin E. Mays Quote

“Every person is born into the world
to do something unique and something distinctive,
and if he or she does not do it,
it will never be done.” Benjamin E. Mays

James Baldwin Quote

“There is never time in the future in which
we will work out our salvation.
The challenge is in the moment;
the time is always now.” James Baldwin

King Solomon Hearn Quote

“What if everyone in the world
adopted a simple philosophy
of love and kindness?”
King Solomon Hearn

Josephine Baker Quote

“The things we truly love stay with us always,
locked in our hearts as long as life remains.”
Josephine Baker

Babatunde Olatunji Quote

“Yesterday is history.
Tomorrow is a mystery.
And today? Today is a gift.
That's why we call it the present.”
Babatunde Olatunji

Josephine Baker Quote

“The things we truly love stay with us always,
locked in our hearts as long as life remains.”
Josephine Baker

Quote by Rosa Parks

“To this day I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live,
grow up, and do what we can to make this world a better place
for all people to enjoy freedom!” Rosa Parks

AFRICAN AWARENESS MONTH: THEME FOR INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES IN FEBRUARY

“African Awareness Month” (also called “Black History
Month”) is celebrated in the month of February in the United
States of America and in Canada. It is a celebration of the
contributions of African and African American people have made
to these countries and the collective human experience.

It is also a reminder that human history is a collective and all
groups have made significant contributions. Ultimately a greater
understanding of the contributions that different groups have
made to our human history will bring us closer to understanding
that we are all a part of the same human family and there is
only one “race” of people, the “human race!”

“Black History Month” was created by a historian Carter G
Woodson in 1926 as “Negro History” week and later evolved into
an entire month of celebrations! For the month of February I
will post quotes by famous African and African American people!

My purpose for sharing these inspirational quotes with you is to
encourage you and I to think about our lives in a different way,
perhaps a more positive way. By changing the way we think and
talk about our lives in this precious moment we have an
opportunity to create a more enjoyable life experience.