"The woman who bore me is no longer……" — Johnnetta B. Cole
"The woman who bore me is no longer alive, but I seem to be her daughter in increasingly profound ways."
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11 Quotes by Johnnetta B. Cole
Johnnetta B. Cole has 11 quotes on this site.
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The histories of the poor and the powerless are as important as those of their conquerors, their colonizers, their kings…
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You cannot fully understand your own life without knowing and thinking beyond your life, your own neighborhood, and even your…
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What you give ought to be in direct relationship to what you've received. If you have been blessed with a…
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The ultimate expression of generosity is not in giving of what you have, but in giving of who you are.
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Show me someone content with mediocrity and I'll show you someone destined for failure.
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Faced with what seems like an impossible task, a group of folks will do well to remember the African proverb:…
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Now, if you want to know my secret love, it is to be able to serve as an example.
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The more we pull together toward a new day, the less it matters what pushed us apart in the past.
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The myth of black women profiting at the expense of black men is the oldest rap around.
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If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic,…
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