Black History Month: Quote of the Day

“I’ve grown most not from victories, but setbacks. If winning is God’s reward, then losing is how he teaches us.” “I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall.” Serena Williams is a professional tennis player, known for her feminine strength and inspiration to other female athletes. The forty-year-old has had a successful career...

Kobe Bryant “The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.” “It's the magic within each of us that gives us the potential to inspire the world.” Kobe Bryant was one of the most iconic African American professional basketball players. Damion Thomas from the National Museum of African American History & Culture said “For...

“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars and change the world.” “I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.” Harriet Tubman was an American abolitionist who was born into slavery around 1820 in Dorchester County, Maryland. After escaping in 1849 and heading to...

Toni Morrison “Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.” “For me, the history of the place of black people in this country is so varied, complex, and beautiful. And impactful.” Chloe Anthony Wofford Morrison, known as Toni Morrison, was an African American author who wrote about the Black American experience in her novel, Beloved. Other than writi...

“It is easier to build strong children than repair broken men.” “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” Frederick Douglass was a man of many strengths. The most noteworthy of them all was the movement he made towards social reformation. Douglass was the national leader of the abolitionist movement in New York and Massachusetts, as well as an accomplished author. His most famous...

“You may shoot me with your words. You may cut me with your eyes. You may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I’ll rise.” “History, despite the wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” Maya Angelou was a poet, among other things, who used her work as a platform to speak her mind. She is best known for her autobiography talking...

“The time is always right to do what is right.” “We must learn to live together as brothers, or we will perish together as fools.” “I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.” Martin Luther King Jr. carried the legacy of being one of the greatest activists of all time. He was one of the bravest men in history, and possessed the ability to hone in on...

“You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.” “I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free…so other people would also be free.” Rosa Parks is one of the most well known civil rights activists. On December 1, 1955, she took a seat on the bus to go home after a long day of work like she would any other day. A white man got on the bus and when...

“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.” “I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.” On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier and changed the face of Major League Baseball forever, when he started in his first game for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Robinson was the first African American player in the history of the league;...