First step Quote by Michael O. Emerson

“We cannot afford to lose the Negro. We have urgent need of all and more. Let us therefore turn our efforts to making the…

— Andrew Carnegie

“So much was lost—names, faces, ages, ethnic identities—that African Americans must do what no other ethnic group writ large must do: take a completely…

— Michael W. Twitty

“We cannot address the place we find ourselves because we will not acknowledge the road that brought us here. Our failure to confront the…

— Timothy B. Tyson

“I wept for my children and all black children who have been denied a knowledge of their heritage; I wept for all white children,…

— Martin Luther King Jr

“Unfortunately, when hope diminishes, the hate is often turned most bitterly toward those who originally built up the hope. In all the speaking that…

— Martin Luther King Jr

“Oh, such a shame, such a shame. Oh, such a shame. What’s it all about anyhow?” “I’ve wondered for a long time.” “But why…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It was human who said BLACK is SAD. I don't believe. You know why. Because I am BLACK but am HAPPY.”

— Ahamed Nafaz Raja.S.N

“I had never read a book written by an African-American. I didn't know that black people could write books. I didn't know that blacks…

— Endesha Ida Mae Holland

“Don’t apologize. My ma used to say that crying is good for you. Tears are the path that free your mind of sorrowful thoughts.”…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Not being able to deal with your life is humiliating. It makes you feel weak. And if you’re African-American and female, not only are…

— Samantha Irby

“I don't really understand the point of crying. Also, I feel that crying is almost- like, aside from deaths of relatives or whatever- totally…

— John Green

“Tears aren't for the people we've lost. They're for us. So we can remember, and celebrate, and miss them, and feel human.”

— C.J. Redwine