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The African race is a rubber ball. The harder you dash it to the g

The African race is a rubber ball. The harder you dash it to the ground, the higher it will rise. – African Proverb

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Indecision is like a stepchild: if he does not wash his hands, he is called dirty, if he does, he is wasting water. – African Proverb

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Decisions
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The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia the shadowy and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers of single blacks flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness. – W.E.B. DuBois

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Black History

As I like to say to the people in Montgomery: “The tension in this city is not between white people and Negro people. The tension is, at bottom, between justice and injustice, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness.” – Martin Luther King,Jr.

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Black History

The Negro is the child of two cultures – Africa and America. The problem is that in the search for wholeness all too many Negroes seek to embrace only one side of their natures. – Martin Luther King,Jr.

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Black History

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart. – Countess of Blessington

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Black History

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Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. – Charles Simic

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