Monthly Archives: February 2011

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

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

“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

“Life is short, and it’s up to you to make it sweet.” Sadie Delaney

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

“There is in this world no such force as the force of a person determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.” W.E.B. Dubois

“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

“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