“If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments.”
–Flip Wilson, Emmy and Grammy Award-winning comedian
Posts tagged as “Quotes”
“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
“[at age eighty] My identity is very clear to me now. I am a black woman. I am free. I no longer have to be a “credit.” I don’t have to be a symbol to anybody; I don’t have to be a first to anybody. I don’t have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I’d become. I’m me, and I’m like nobody else.”
–Lena Horne, actress, singer, entertainer and activist
“There is in this world no such force of a an determined to rise. The human soul cannot be permanently chained.”
–W.E.B. DuBois, scholar, activist, writer, educator
“The constant reminder by society that I am ‘different’ because of the color of my skin, once I step outside of my door, is not my problem – it’s theirs. I have never made it my problem and never will. I will die for my right to be human – just human.”
–Cicely Tyson, actress and co-founder of the Dance Theatre Of Harlem
“I always say YCDA: you can do anything. If you want to be a successful actor, you have to believe in yourself more than anything else, and don’t let anybody tell you that you cannot do it because you can.”
–Michael Clarke Duncan, Academy Award-nominated actor
“There’s a great difference between being concerned and being committed. When you’re concerned, it’s negotiable. When I went to Washington, I was committed. And what I was about was not negotiable.”
— Jocelyn Elders, the first African-American U.S. Surgeon General