Black History Month Quotations

1. 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 The Greatest (1975)

2. Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise.
-- Maya Angelou "Still I rise," And Still I Rise (1978)

3. Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
-- Arthur Ashe quoted in Sports Illustrated

4. Just like you can buy grades of silk, you can buy grades of justice.
-- Ray Charles

5. The past is a ghost, the future a dream. All we ever have is now.
-- Bill Cosby

6. There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution...
-- Frederick Douglass

7. You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.
-- Billie Holiday

8.. Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.
-- Quincy Jones

9. Do not call for black
 power or green power. Call for brain power.
-- Barbara Jordan

10. Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.
-- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.