Category Archives: African American Quotes

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

“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  

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

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

“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 … Continue reading →

“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

“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

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

“I make simpler my life by focusing all my attention on living in this precious moment!” King Solomon Hearn