FAMOUS BLACK QUOTES ABOUT LIFE

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.” – Booker T. Washington

“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.” – Barack Obama

“The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.” – W.E.B. Du Bois

“If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.” – Toni Morrison

“I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.” – Nelson Mandela

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” – Alice Walker

“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” – Nikki Giovanni

“When they go low, we go high.” – Michelle Obama

“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” – Frederick Douglass

“I am a feminist. I’ve been female for a long time now. It’d be stupid not to be on my own side.” – Maya Angelou

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” – Maya Angelou

“The time is always right to do what is right.” – Martin Luther King Jr. 21 DAYS TO MAKE A HABIT QUOTE

“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Harriet Tubman

“I don’t ask for any crown, but I remember that in order to change the world, you have to be able to get your hands dirty.” – Barack Obama

“Have a vision. Be demanding.” – Colin Powell

“Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person’s throat.” – Wole Soyinka

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” – Maya Angelou

“We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

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

“You can only become accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you.” – Maya Angelou

“I am my best work – a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines.” – Audre Lorde

“It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Don’t let anyone tell you what you’re capable of.” – Serena Williams

“I don’t want a Black History Month. Black history is American history.” – Morgan Freeman

“No person is your friend who demands your silence or denies your right to grow.” – Alice Walker

“If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.” – Shirley Chisholm