Tag: Black History Month

Quotes February 21, 2022

Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly.
Langston Hughes,
poet, social activist, writer, playwright
February is Black History Month
 
 
 
 
Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat.
My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you.
Audre Lorde,
writer, poet, civil rights activist
February is Black History Month
 
 
 
 
There was one of two things I had a right to, liberty, or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.
I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land.
Harriet Tubman,
abolitionist, political activist, Underground Railroad conductor
February is Black History Month
 
 
 
 
I have found that the happiest people are those who do the most for others; the most miserable are those who do the least.
There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
Booker T. Washington,
educator, writer, orator
February is Black History Month