Quotes on African American

This life is not real. I conquered the world and it did not bring me satisfaction.

It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.

I wanted no part of politics. And I wasn't in Berlin to compete against any one athlete. The purpose of the Olympics, anyway, was to do your best. As I'd learned long ago from Charles Riley, the only victory that counts is the one over yourself.

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive.

No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

African American children are significantly more likely to be obese than are white children. Nearly half of African American children will develop diabetes at some point in their lives. People, that's half of our children. ...We can build our kids the best schools on earth, but if they don't have the basic nutrition they need to concentrate, they're still going to have a challenge learning.

Don't want to be near you for the thoughts we share but the words we never have to speak.

Always focus on your effort, instead of the results of that effort.

I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all.

Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything.

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive

Nothing came easy. I was just born with a need to explore every part of my mind. And with long searching and hard work, I became devoted to my restlessness.

The possible has been tried and failed. Now it's time to try the impossible.

We do not believe that in this country, freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the few.

There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.