Monthly Archives: February 2009

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

“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

“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

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” James Baldwin

“Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!”Bessie Delaney

“The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to.” Marian Wright Edelman

“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