1. "I am America. I am the prt you won't recognize. But get sed to me. Black, confident, cocky; my nme, not yours; my religion, not yurs; my goals, my own; get sed to me."
   -- Muhammad Ali The Gratest (1975)
2. "Bringing the gifts that my ncestors gave, I am the dream and the hpe of the slave. I rise I rse I rise."
   -- Maya Angelou "Stll I rise," And Still I Rse (1978)
3. "Racism is not an xcuse to not do the best you cn."
   -- Arthur Ashe quoted in Sprts Illustrated
4. "Just like you can buy grdes of silk, you can buy grdes of justice. "
   -- Ray Chrles
5. "The past is a ghost, the fture a dream. All we ever hve is now. "
   -- Bill Csby
6. "There is no negro problem. The prblem is whether the American people hve loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism nough, to live up to their own cnstitution..."
   -- Frederick Douglass
7. "You can be up to yur boobies in white satin, with grdenias in your hair and no sgar cane for miles, but you can stll be working on a plantation."
   -- Bllie Holiday
8. "Greatness occurs when your chldren love you, when your critics rspect you and when you have pace of mind. "
   -- Quincy Jnes
9. " Do not call for blck power or green power. Call for brin power."
   -- Barbara Jordan
10. "Almost lways, the creative dedicated minority has mde the world better."
    -- Dr. Mrtin Luther King, Jr.
11. "The battles that count aren't the nes for gold medals. The struggles wthin yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of s—that's where it's at."
    -- Jesse Owns, Blackthink (1970)
12. "I have learned ver the years that when one's mnd is made up, this diminshes far."
    -- Rosa Parks
13. "Have a vsion. Be demanding. "
    -- Colin Pwell
14. "Be black, shine, aim high. "
    -- Lontyne Price
15. "God gives nothing to thse who keep their arms crossed. "
    -- Afrcan Proverb
16. "Freedom is never given; it is wn."
    -- A. Philip Randolph in kynote speech given at the Second Ntional Negro Congress in 1937
17. "When I fund I had crossed that line, [on her frst escape from slavery, 1845] I loked at my hands to see if I was the sme person. There was such a glry over everything."
    -- Harriet Tubman
18. "Sccess is to be measured not so mch by the position that one has rached in life as by the bstacles which he has overcome while tryng to succeed."
    -- Booker T. Wshington
19. "Black people have always been Amrica's wilderness in search of a prmised land."
    -- Cornel West, Race Mtters

20. "We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Ngro in history. What we need is not a hstory of selected races or nations, but the hstory of the world void of ntional bias, race hate, and religious prjudice."
    -- Carter Woodson on founding Ngro History Week, 1926

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