Quotes on Black History Month Inspirational

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

Defining myself, as opposed to being defined by others, is one of the most difficult challenges I face.

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into the pot or he got melted down.

Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land.

There is no negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution

Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations.

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.

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

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.

Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.

you must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

For I am my mother's daughter, and the drums of Africa still beat in my heart.

Knowing what must be done does away with fear.

I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person.