“One of the guiding philosophies of music is to find your own voice.”
— Thelonious Monk, jazz pianist, “‘Round Midnight” composer, known as the “Founding Father of Modern Jazz”
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“We’ve got to turn this backward thinking around where ignorance is championed over intelligence. Young black kids being ridiculed by their peers for getting A’s and speaking proper English: that’s criminal.”
— Spike Lee, director, producer, writer and actor
“Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.”
–Marian Anderson, nationally-renowned opera singer
“What Washington needs is adult supervision.”
–President Barack Hussein Obama
(Watch the debate tonight @6pm/9pm PST/EST — and VOTE!!!!)
“Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that.”
— James Brown, singer, musician & the “Godfather Of Soul”
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”
–Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-Winning author of “The Color Purple”
“A word to the wise ain’t necessary — it’s the stupid ones who need advice.”
–Bill Cosby, Emmy-Award Winning actor and comedian
“I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.”
— Huey P. Newton, activist and Co-Founder of The Black Panther Party
“When you are kind to someone, you hope they’ll remember and be kind to someone else and it will become like wildfire.”
–Whoopi Goldberg, Academy Award-Winning Actor and co-host of “The View”
“You can’t lead the people if you don’t love the people. You can’t save the people if you don’t serve the people.”
–Cornel West, educator, author, activist