If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, then, dad gum, people can learn about gender equality. — Johnnetta B. Cole Copy Share Image
if we center our lives on BMWs, RVs, VCRs, PCs and the other acronyms of consumerism, we cannot expect our children to do otherwise. — Johnnetta B. Cole Copy Share Image
The ultimate expression of generosity is not in giving of what you have, but in giving of who you are. — Johnnetta B. Cole Copy Share Image
the trouble with a woman standing behind her man is that she can't see where she is going! — Johnnetta B. Cole Copy Share Image
The woman who bore me is no longer alive, but I seem to be her daughter in increasingly profound ways. — Johnnetta B. Cole Copy Share Image
What you give ought to be in direct relationship to what you've received. If you have been blessed with a great deal, then you… — Johnnetta B. Cole Copy Share Image
The histories of the poor and the powerless are as important as those of their conquerors, their colonizers, their kings and queens. — Johnnetta B. Cole Copy Share Image
The more we pull together toward a new day, the less it matters what pushed us apart in the past. — Johnnetta B. Cole Copy Share Image
There are not many of us African American Sister Presidents, and those of us who are in this field do not have an easy… — Johnnetta B. Cole Copy Share Image
If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, then, dad gum, people… — Johnnetta B. Cole Copy Share Image
Now, if you want to know my secret love, it is to be able to serve as an example. — Johnnetta B. Cole Copy Share Image
An education that teaches you to understand something about the world has done only half of the assignment. The other half is to teach… — Johnnetta B. Cole Copy Share Image
Crisis' seems to be too mild a word to describe conditions in countless African-American communities. It is beyond crisis when in the richest nation… — Johnnetta B. Cole Copy Share Image
Show me someone content with mediocrity and I'll show you someone destined for failure. — Johnnetta B. Cole Copy Share Image
The content of the curriculum should never exclude the realities of the very students who must intellectually wrestle with it. When students study all… — Johnnetta B. Cole Copy Share Image
