Quotes on Black Inspirational

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.

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

Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations.

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.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

Hate is too great a burden to bear.

The potential for greatness lives within us all.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.