“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
Posts tagged as “Inspiration”
“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
“If you are a parent, recognize that it is the most important calling and rewarding challenge you have. What you do every day, what you say and how you act, will do more to shape the future of America than any other factor.”
–Marian Wright Edelman, author, activist and Founder of The Children’s Defense Fund
“Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living.”
— Mary Mcleod Bethune, educator, feminist and founder of The National Council For Negro Women
“In every crisis there is a message. Crises are nature’s way of forcing change — breaking down old structures, shaking loose negative habits so that something new and better can take their place.”
— Susan L. Taylor, editor-in-chief emeritus of Essence Magazine
“It’s easy to be independent when you’ve got money. But to be independent when you haven’t got a thing, that’s the Lord’s test.”
–Mahalia Jackson, the “Queen Of Gospel”
“Life is something like a trumpet. If you don’t put anything in, you won’t get anything out.”–W.C. Handy, composer and musician known as the “Father Of The Blues”
“Can’t a man alive mistreat me, ’cause I know who I am.”
–Alberta Hunter, blues singer and songwriter
“You can’t make someone else’s choices. You shouldn’t let someone else make yours.”
–Colin Powell, Former Secretary of State and U.S. General