An education that teaches you to understand something about the world has done only half of the assignment. The other half is to teach you to do something about making the world a better place. — 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
