Johnnetta B. Cole Quotes

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• The histories of the poor and the powerless are as important as those of their conquerors, their colonizers, their kings and queens.
• You cannot fully understand your own life without knowing and thinking beyond your life, your own neighborhood, and even your own nation.
• 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 have…
• The ultimate expression of generosity is not in giving of what you have, but in giving of who you are.
• Show me someone content with mediocrity and I'll show you someone destined for failure.
• Faced with what seems like an impossible task, a group of folks will do well to remember the African proverb: When spider webs unite they…
• Now, if you want to know my secret love, it is to be able to serve as an example.
• The more we pull together toward a new day, the less it matters what pushed us apart in the past.
• The myth of black women profiting at the expense of black men is the oldest rap around.
• 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…
• The woman who bore me is no longer alive, but I seem to be her daughter in increasingly profound ways.

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