December 27, 2024
“Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive. Don’t you surrender! Suffering breeds character, character breeds faith. In the end faith will not disappoint.”
“I did my best and God did the rest.”
–Hattie McDaniel, the first African-American actor to win an Academy Award
GBN Quote Of The Day: “When we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, “Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!”
–Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., from his “I Have A Dream” speech
“I have a lifetime appointment and I intend to serve it. I expect to die at 110, shot by a jealous husband.”
–Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice and the NAACP’s chief counsel on Brown vs. Board Of Education
“I’m inspired by my own children, how full they make my heart. They make me want to work to make the world a little bit better. And they make me want to be a better man.”
—President Barack Obama
GBN Quote Of The Day: “If you always do what you always did, you’ll always get what you always got.”
— Jackie “Moms” Mabley, actress and comedian
“I am America. I am the part you won’t recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.”
–Muhammad Ali, world heavyweight boxing champion, activist and icon
“Give your brain as much attention as you do your hair and you’ll be a thousand times better off.”
— Malcolm X, activist, minister, civil rights leader
“Life has two rules: Number 1, never quit! Number 2, always remember rule number 1.”
–Duke Ellington, legendary jazz pianist, composer and bandleader
“Sometimes I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can anyone deny themselves the pleasure of my company?”
–Zora Neale Hurston, anthropologist and author of “Their Eyes Are Watching God”