“Find the good. It’s all around you. Find it, showcase it, and you’ll start believing in it.”
— Jesse Owens, four-time Olympic gold medal winner
Posts tagged as “Inspiration”
“Sometimes you’ve got to let everything go–purge yourself. I did that. I had nothing, but I had my freedom… [W]hatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you’ll find that when you’re free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.”
— Tina Turner, Pop, Rock and R&B singing legend
“Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn’t mean he lacks vision.”
–Stevie Wonder, musical legend
“If you are going to think black, think positive about it. Don’t think down on it, think it is something in your way. And this way, when you really do want to stretch out, and express how beautiful black is, everybody will hear you.”
— Leontyne Price, opera legend and Presidential Medal Of Freedom Winner
“Few are too young, and none too old, to make the attempt to learn.”
–Booker T. Washington, educator, author, orator and first President of the Tuskegee Institute
“Excellence is not an act, but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you do the best.”
–Marva Collins, educator and author
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
— Jimi Hendrix, singer/songwriter, guitar legend and Rock And Roll Hall of Fame Inductee
“Whether you have a Ph.D., or a D.D. or no D., we’re in this together. Whether you’re from Morehouse or No house, we’re in this bag together.”
–Fannie Lou Hamer, civil and voting rights activist
“You are young, gifted, and black. We must begin to tell our young, there’s a world waiting for you, yours is the quest that’s just begun.”
— James Weldon Johnson, poet, civil rights activist and co-writer of “Lift Every Voice And Sing” (the Negro National Anthem)
“In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.”
— Audre Lorde, poet, writer and literary activist