The woman who bore me is no longer alive, but I seem to be her daughter in increasingly profound ways.

- Johnnetta B. Cole

What you give ought to be in direct relationship to what you've received. If you have been blessed with a great deal, then you have a lot of giving t…

- Johnnetta B. Cole

Faced with what seems like an impossible task, a group of folks will do well to remember the African proverb: When spider webs unite they can tie up …

- Johnnetta B. Cole

While it is true that without a vision the people perish, it is doubly true that without action the people and their vision perish as well.

- Johnnetta B. Cole

You cannot fully understand your own life without knowing and thinking beyond your life, your own neighborhood, and even your own nation.

- Johnnetta B. Cole

The content of the curriculum should never exclude the realities of the very students who must intellectually wrestle with it. When students study al…

- Johnnetta B. Cole

The more we pull together toward a new day, the less it matters what pushed us apart in the past.

- Johnnetta B. Cole

The ultimate expression of generosity is not in giving of what you have, but in giving of who you are.

- Johnnetta B. Cole

Show me someone content with mediocrity and I'll show you someone destined for failure.

- Johnnetta B. Cole