Celebrating Black History Month 2020
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Guy Stauber
"Don’t let anybody rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity"
- Dr. Mae Jemison
"Don’t let anybody rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity"
- Dr. Mae Jemison
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Tallulah Fontaine
"The challenge of this age is to resist and conquer in each of our own beings the racist brainwashing that is still active in our minds."
- Wyatt Tee Walker
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Daren Lin
"Freedom is never given; it is won."
- A. Philip Randolph, civil rights activist
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Charles Chaisson
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
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Gary Kelley
"Nobody’s free until everybody’s free."
- Fannie Lou Hamer
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Edward Kinsella
"It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences."
- Audre Lorde
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David Johnson
"For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."
- Nelson Mandela
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Jason Seiler
"Over the years since I left home, I have kept thinking about the people I grew up with and about our way of life. I realize how much the bond that held us had to do with food."
- Edna Lewis, "The Taste of Country Cooking"
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David Palumbo
"Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment."
- Sidney Poitier, "The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography"
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Kent Barton
"There are 2 rules in life. Number 1: Never quit. Number 2: Never forget rule number 1. "
- Duke Ellington
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Thomas Ehretsmann
"Life is not a spectator sport. If you’re going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you’re wasting your life."
- Jackie Robinson
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Mark Summers
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any."
- Alice Walker
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Rose Wong
"I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them."
- Madam C.J. Walker
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Dongyun Lee
"I need to see my own beauty and to continue to be reminded that I am enough, that I am worthy of love without effort, that I am beautiful, that the texture of my hair and that the shape of my curves, the size of my lips, the color of my skin, and the feelings that I have are all worthy and okay."
- Tracee Ellis Ross
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Eleni Kalorkoti
"Make a difference about something other than yourselves."
- Toni Morrison
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John Mattos
"Seems to me it ain't the world that's so bad but what we're doing to it, and all I'm saying is: see what a wonderful world it would be if only we'd give it a chance. Love, baby - love. That's the secret."
- Louis Armstrong
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Ricardo Martinez
"You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it."
- Malcolm X
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Bill Sanderson
"True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost."
- Arthur Ashe
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Maria Corte
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."
- Barack Obama
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Ana Gomez Bernaus
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it."
- Muhammad Ali
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