Quote by Oprah Winfrey
I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to r

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. – Oprah Winfrey

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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness. – Oprah Winfrey

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Failure
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. – Oprah Winfrey

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best
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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it. – Oprah Winfrey

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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

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

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Black History

This being Black History Month, I would like to ask people to celebrate the similarities and not focus on the differences between people of color and not of color. – Lynn Swann

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Black History

There is no Negro problem. The problem is whether the American people have loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough, to live up to their own constitution. – Frederick Douglass

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Black History

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If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country. – James Buchanan to Abraham Lincoln, 1861

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I have always felt it was a handicap for oppressed peoples to depend so largely upon a leader, because unfortunately in our culture, the charismatic leader usually becomes a leader because he has found a spot in the public limelight… – Ella Baker

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Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself. – Thomas Jefferson

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