“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”
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“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
“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
“If you wanna earn, baby, earn, you gotta learn, baby, learn!”
— Mayor of Newark Cory Booker