Afican American Qoutes No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward. "If you hold your hand closed, nothing good can come in. The open hand is blessed, for it gives in abundance, even as it receives." "if you think you are a leader, and you turn around and there is no one behind you -- well you are not a leader....you're just a guy out taking a walk." "If you are riding in it, or wearing it, it is not in the bank..." America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description. “America doesn’t respect anything but money. What our people need is a few millionaires.” Madame C.J. Walker “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.” “Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.” Stokeley Carmichael and Charles V. Hamilton “The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.” “To the ordinary American or Englishman, the race question at bottom is simply a matter of ownership of women; white men want the right to use all women, colored and white, and they resent the intrusion of colored men in this domain.” “Men are not women, and a man’s balance depends on the weight he carries between his legs.” “Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us.” Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change. He who is courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life. I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: “I’m with you kid. Let’s go.” Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. Success doesn’t come to you...you go to it. Do the right thing. Just don’t give up what you’re trying to do. Where there is Love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong. Not everything that is faced can be changed until it is faced. 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. I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind. The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work. If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michealangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare composed poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, “Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.” I don’t think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good. You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure. Mix a conviction with a man and something happens. I feel that the most important requirement in success is learning to overcome failure. You must learn to tolerate it, but never accept it. To me, we must learn to spell the word RESPECT. We must respect the rights and properties of our fellowman. And then learn to play the game of life, as well as the game of athletics, according to the rules of society. If you can take that and put it into practice in the community in which you live, then, to me you have won the greatest championship. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
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