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"Never Let anyone tell you that you can't; show them that you can."
— Gloria Mallette

tags: african, american, books, family, fiction, marriage, psychological, suspense

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"The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife, -- this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost... He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American..."
— W.E.B. DuBois (Souls of Black Folk & Era of Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933-1945 & Movements of the New Left 1950-1975)

tags: african, american, dubois, identity, pragmatism, progress

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"I will heighten my life by helping others heighten theirs"
— Les Brown (Live Your Dreams)

tags: african, american, author, motivantional

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"One doesn't give chase to two large black monkeys at once."
— African proverb

tags: african, focus, proverb, wisdom

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"You never cared enough to be Black "
— Gil Scott-Heron

tags: african

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