Black History Month Quote of the Day: Day 28

"Everything's the same; I'm living with cancer and it's not going to stop me. But until you really test yourself and challenge yourself, I don't think you quite know."
Robin Roberts

Black History Month Quote of the Day: Day 27

"We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice."
Carter Woodson

Black History Month Quote of the Day: Day 26

"I really don’t think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don’t mind the failure but I can’t imagine that I’d forgive myself if I didn’t try."
Nikki Giovanni

Black History Month Quote of the Day: Day 25

“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

Black History Month Quote of the Day: Day 24

"Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company."
Mary McLeod Bethune

Black History Month Quote of the Day: Day 23

"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives"
Jackie Robinson

Black History Month Quote of the Day: Day 22

"I felt that one had better die fighting against injustice than to die like a dog or rat in a trap. I had already determined to sell my life as dearly as possible if attacked. I felt if I could take one lyncher with me, this would even up the score a little bit."
Ida B Wells

Black History Month Quote of the Day: Day 21

"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

Black History Month Quote of the Day: Day 20

"Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live. "
Mae Jemison

Black History Month Quote of the Day: Day 19

"I've always been multi-cultural myself. I'm not black and I'm not white and I'm not pink and I'm not green. Eartha Kitt has no color, and that is how barriers are broken."
Eartha Kitt

Black History Month Quote of the Day: Day 18

"I don't want a black history month. Black history is American history." 
Morgan Freeman

Black History Month Pic of the Day: Day 17

[2008 Victory Speech] “If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer”
Barack Obama

Black History Month Quote of the Day: Day 16

"I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all."
Zora Neale Hurston

Black History Month Quote of the Day: Day 15

“We wanted confrontation, nonviolent confrontation, to see if it would work… Not just for Birmingham – for the nation. We were trying to launch a systematic wholehearted battle against segregation, which would set the pace for the nation.”
Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth

Black History Month Quote of the Day: Day 13

 "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

Black History Month Quote of the Day: Day 12

“Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard!”
Aaliyah

Black History Month Quote of the Day: Day 11

"There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father, and how come that's not as newsworthy?"
Will Smith

Black History Month Quote of the Day: Day 10

“It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.”
Maya Angelou

Black History Month Quote of the Day: Day 9

 "I'm very proud to be black, but black is not all I am. That's my cultural historical background, my genetic makeup, but it's not all of who I am nor is it the basis from which I answer every question." Denzel Washington

Black History Month Quote of the Day: Day 8

"'We, the people.' It is a very eloquent beginning. But when that document [the Preamble to the US Constitution] was completed on the seventeenth of September in 1787 I was not included in that 'We, the people.' I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton, just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation and court decision I have finally been included in 'We, the people.'" Barbara Jordan