Browsing Topic Best African American Quotes

Please find below a curated list of 925 of The Best African American Quotes by notable women and men. Please consider sharing with others any of the African American Quotes that resonate.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

Topic(s): African American , Hate , Black

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

Topic(s): African American , Inspirational , Use

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

Topic(s): African American , People , Thinking

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

Topic(s): African American , Way , Two

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

Topic(s): African American , Men , Inspirational

Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.

Topic(s): African American , Inspirational , Winning

It doesn’t matter how strong your opinions are. If you don’t use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.

Topic(s): African American , Ifs , Problem

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

Topic(s): African American , Political , Liberty

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Topic(s): African American , Ifs , Inspirational

Don’t settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had. We need to live the best that’s in us.

Topic(s): African American , Knows , Needs

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

Topic(s): African American , Inspirational , Action

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.

Topic(s): African American , Trying , Inspirational

If you are confident you have done everything possible to prepare yourself, then there is nothing to fear.

Topic(s): African American , Ifs , Done

It isn’t where you came from, it’s where you’re going that counts.

Topic(s): African American , Inspirational , Success

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

Topic(s): African American , Ifs , Want

I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

Topic(s): African American , World , Busy

Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.

Topic(s): African American , Black , Excuse

No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.

Topic(s): African American , Thinking , Men

The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.

Topic(s): African American , Action , House

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a state of rage almost all of the time.

Topic(s): African American , Country , Literature

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.

Topic(s): African American , Hate , Fear

We are the ones we have been waiting for.

Topic(s): African American , Inspirational , Has Beens

I was supposed to be grateful because I one was one of the first African Americans coaching. I was supposed to sit there and say, ‘Oh, thank you Mr. White Man for giving me a job.’ God made me human and equal. Now I’m supposed to be grateful because you’re treating me equal and treating me as a human being? No.

Topic(s): African American , Basketball , Treated

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.

Topic(s): African American , Thinking , Doe

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

Topic(s): African American , Inspirational , Literature

The African American community stood up for me. You’ve always had my back. And I’ll have yours.

Topic(s): African American , American Politics , Presidential Election

… social evils are dangerously contagious. The fixed policy of persecution and injustice against a class of women who are weak and defenseless will be necessarily hurtful to the cause of all women.

Topic(s): African American , Evil , Causes

It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.

Topic(s): African American , Dies , Causes

I believe in individuality, that everybody is special, and it’s up to them to find that quality and let it live.

Topic(s): African American , Believe , Inspirational

I support anyone’s right to be who they want to be. My question is: to what extent do I have to participate in your self-image?

Topic(s): African American , Want , Self

After four hundred years of slave labor, we have some back pay coming, a bill owed to us that must be collected.

Topic(s): African American , Pay , Four

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

Topic(s): African American , Thinking , Way

When people tell me nothing has changed, I say come walk in my shoes and I will show you change.

Topic(s): African American , People , Shows

What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.

Topic(s): African American , World , Needs

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