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  • #1
    bell hooks
    “I always tell my students that Malcolm X came both to his spirituality and to his consciousness as a thinker when he had solitude to read. Unfortunately, tragically, like so many young black males, that solitude only came in prison.”
    Bell Hooks

  • #2
    Alexandra Elle
    “When you really love someone your heart might always beat for them. Just because that is so, it doesn't mean that they will always dance for you.”
    Alexandra Elle

  • #3
    Matthew Goldfinger
    “Creating a better future
    Requires creativity in the present.”
    Matthew Goldfinger

  • #4
    Charles M. Blow
    “A heart still works even when it's broken”
    Charles Blow, Fire Shut Up in My Bones: A Memoir

  • #5
    Maya Angelou
    “What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.”
    Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now

  • #6
    If you don't like someone's story, write your own.
    “If you don't like someone's story, write your own.”
    Chinua Achebe

  • #7
    “Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.”
    Colin Powell, On Leadership

  • #8
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World

  • #9
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
    Rumi

  • #10
    Yvonne Pierre
    “Don't be discouraged if people don't see your vision, your harvest. All they see from their perspective is that you're watering a whole lot of dirt. They don't SEE what seeds you've been planting with blood, sweat, tears and lack of sleep. Make sure you don't abandon or neglect it because "they" don't see it. You have to KNOW and believe for yourself. They don't see the roots and what's budding under the dirt. But it's okay, because it's NOT meant for them to see it. While you wait, MASTER it. You continue to do YOUR work and have unwavering faith! Remember why you started planting in the first place. Your harvest WILL come!”
    Yvonne Pierre, The Day My Soul Cried: A Memoir

  • #11
    Erykah Badu
    “Peace and Blessings manifest with every lesson learned. If your knowledge were your wealth then it would be well earned.”
    Erykah Badu

  • #12
    Elizabeth Acevedo
    “My brother was birthed a soft whistle: quiet, barely stirring the air, a gentle sound. But I was born all the hurricane he needed to lift—and drop—those that hurt him to the ground.”
    Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

  • #13
    Yaa Gyasi
    “We believe the one who has power. He is the one who gets to write the story. So when you study history, you must ask yourself, Whose story am I missing? Whose voice was suppressed so that this voice could come forth? Once you have figured that out, you must find that story too. From there you get a clearer, yet still imperfect, picture.”
    Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing

  • #14
    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #15
    Alice Walker
    “No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.”
    Alice Walker

  • #16
    Maya Angelou
    “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
    Maya Angelou

  • #17
    Glory Edim
    “Books bring me joy. They’ve always been a space to reflect and see myself.”
    Glory Edim

  • #18
    Carter G. Woodson
    “History shows that it does not matter who is in power or what revolutionary forces take over the government, those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they had in the beginning.”
    Carter Godwin Woodson, The Mis-Education of the Negro

  • #19
    Suheir Hammad
    “I've read too many books to believe what I am told.”
    Suheir Hammad

  • #20
    Saidiya Hartman
    “In Ghana, it is said that a stranger is like water running over the ground after a rainstorm: it soon dries up and leaves behind no traces.

    “Stranger” is the X that stands in for a proper name. It is the placeholder for the missing, the mark of the passage, the scar between native and citizen. It is both an end and a beginning. It announces the disappearance of the known world and the antipathy of the new one. And the longing and the loss redolent in the label were as much my inheritance as they were that of the enslaved.”
    Saidiya Hartman

  • #21
    Maria Popova
    “Greatness is consistency driven by a deep love of the work.”
    Maria Popova

  • #22
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    “Goodbye," said the fox. "And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

  • #23
    Frederick Douglass
    “Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.”
    Frederick Douglass

  • #24
    Frederick Douglass
    “I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.”
    Frederick Douglass

  • #25
    Barbara Neely
    “Anytime you get this many light-skinned black people together at least half of them are going to be folks who act light-skinned.”
    Barbara Neely, Blanche Among the Talented Tenth

  • #26
    James Baldwin
    “Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.”
    James Baldwin

  • #27
    Toni Morrison
    “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
    Toni Morrison

  • #28
    Walter Mosley
    “The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do everyday. There are two reasons for this rule: Getting the work done and connecting with your unconscious mind.”
    Walter Mosley

  • #29
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
    Friedrich Nietzsche

  • #30
    Kemi Sogunle
    “Every time you mistreat someone, you reveal the part of you that lacks love and needs to heal.”
    Kemi Sogunle



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