Famous black quotes

The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image. Charles W. Chesnutt

You're either part of the solution or part of the problem. (Leroy) Eldridge Cleaver

children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don't have no sense Lucille Clifton

Life is short, and it's up to you to make it sweet. Sadie Delany

You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man. Frederick Douglass (1818?-1895)

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others... One ever feels his twoness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warrings ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. W.E.B. Du Bois

The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to. Marian Wright Edelman