Black History Month

I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me. ~Muhammad Ali

You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man. ~Frederick Douglass

Freedom is never given; it is won. ~A. Philip Randolph

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. ~Frederick Douglass

It's just like when you've got some coffee that's too black, which means it's too strong. What do you do? You integrate it with cream, you make it weak. But if you pour too much cream in it, you won't even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it puts you to sleep. ~Malcolm X

I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up. ~Rosa Parks

Prejudice is the child of ignorance. ~William Hazlitt

And so we shall have to do more than register and more than vote; we shall have to create leaders who embody virtues we can respect, who have moral and ethical principles we can applaud with enthusiasm. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.