“Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.” - Arthur Ashe #quote

“A wise person speaks carefully and with truth, for every word that passes between one’s teeth is meant for something.” - Molefi Kete Asante #quote

“Prayer begins where human capacity ends.” - Marian Anderson #quote

“If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don’t be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning ‘Good morning’ at total strangers.” - Maya Angelou #quote

“The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.” - Michael Jackson #quote

“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all these.” - George Washington Carver #quote

“Success doesn’t come to you…you go to it.” - Marva Collins #quote

“In all things that are purely social, we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.” - Booker T. Washington #quote

“You can’t look forward and backward at the same time.” - Coleman Young #quote

“People see God every day, they just don’t recognize him.” - Pearl Bailey #quote

“Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come; you have to get up and make them.” - Madame C.J. Walker #quote

“Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.” -Frederick Douglass #quote

“Never work just for money or for power. They won’t save your soul or help you sleep at night.” - Marian Wright Edelman #quote

“The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us.” - Jesse Owens #quote

“Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap.” - Ray Charles #quote