POSITIVE QUOTES BY BLACK PEOPLE

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.” – Maya Angelou

“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.” – Booker T. Washington

“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” – Harriet Tubman

“I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.” – Eldridge Cleaver

“We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated.” – Maya Angelou

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Angela Davis

“Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.” – Coretta Scott King

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” – Alice Walker

“I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.” – Oprah Winfrey

“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

“If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.” – Shirley Chisholm

“The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.” – W.E.B. Du Bois

“You are your best thing.” – Toni Morrison

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” – Frederick Douglass

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” – Martin Luther King Jr. FAMOUS QUOTES ABOUT CONTRIBUTING TO SOCIETY

“I’m not going to let anyone steal my joy.” – Cicely Tyson

“Don’t sit down and wait for opportunities to come. Get up and make them.” – Madam C.J. Walker

“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” – Maya Angelou

“No person has the right to rain on your dreams.” – Marian Wright Edelman

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” – Maya Angelou

“I am my best work – a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines.” – Audre Lorde

“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.” – Langston Hughes

“We need more than just affordable housing. We need wealth creation.” – Tishaura Jones

“I’d rather live my life with regrets than wonder what could have happened.” – Viola Davis

“The only way to deal with this life’s ups and downs is to embrace the good and the bad, and neither allow that you one could define the other.” – Chadwick Boseman

“Love is an endless act of forgiveness. Forgiveness is me giving up the right to hurt you for hurting me.” – Bishop T.D. Jakes

“Your dreams may not happen when you want them to happen, but they will happen when you give your all.” – Serena Williams

“True freedom is an internal state of mind. It is not with an absence of commitment or slavery, but it is about knowing who you are.” – Angela Davis

“When you know yourself, you are empowered. When you accept yourself, you are invincible.” – Tina Lifford