Joslyn Pine - Book of African-American Quotations
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This original collection of quotations cites approximately 100 well-known African-Americans from all walks of life. Twentieth-century notables include Louis Armstrong, Muhammad Ali, Julian Bond, and Ralph Ellison, in addition to earlier figures such as George Washington Carver and Frederick Douglass. Sources include poetry and works of fiction as well as song lyrics. Arranged alphabetically by author, the quotations cover a wide variety of subjects. Brief captions identify the quoted individuals and the achievements for which they are best known.
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Born 1934 major league baseball player and executive with the Atlanta Braves organization first MLB player to hit 500 home runs and reach 3,000 hits Baseball Hall of Fame autobiography, I Had a Hammer
A white child might need a role model, but a black child needs more than that in this society. He needs hope.
I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life youre inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something youve never seen before. If they do, Im still looking for it.
On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.
[on breaking Babe Ruths home run record] I had to break that record. I had to do it for Jackie [Robinson] and my people and myself and for everybody who ever called me nigger.
[on retirement] You can only milk a cow so long, and then youre left holding the pail.
Born 1947 a.k.a. Ferdinand Lewis Lew Alcindor basketball player, writer, TV and film actor winner of six MVP Awards and six NBA championships books include On the Shoulders of Giants: My Journey Through the Harlem Renaissance, and an autobiography, Giant Steps
You cant win unless you learn how to lose.
I learned early on that theres a place inside oneself that no one else can violate, that no one else can enter, and that we have a right to protect that place.
I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
Malcolm [X] was talking about real people doing real things, black pride, and Islam. I just grabbed on to it. And I have never looked back.
Im not comfortable being preachy, but more people have to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court. If they took the idea that they could escape poverty through education, I think it would make a more basic and long-lasting change in the way things happen.
All the courage and competitiveness of Jackie Robinson affects me to this day. If I patterned my life after anyone, it was him, not because he was the first black baseball player in the majors but because he was a hero.
[on retirement] The sport goes on. People will find new heroes. And Im flattered theyll be compared with me.
various anonymous sources
We aint what we ought to be and we aint what we want to be and we aint what were going to be. But thank God we aint what we was.
Been down so long, down dont worry me.
Blues aint nothin but a po mans heart disease.
All poor people aint black and all black people aint poor.
Death dont see no difference tween the big house and the cabin.
Dont trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.
Drugs take you further than you want to go, keep you there longer than you want to stay, and cost you more than you can ever pay.
Every shut-eye aint sleep and every good-bye aint gone.
Hard work in de hot sun done called a many a man to preach.
Hold a true friend with both hands.
If you ask a Negro where hes been, hell tell you where hes going.
If you caint bear no crosses, you caint wear no crown.
In the South they dont care how close you get, as long as you dont get too high. In the North, they dont care how high you get, as long as you dont get too close.
Life is short and full of blisters.
Mothers raise their daughters and let their sons grow up.
Nothing can suffice a person except that which they have not.
Nothing goes over the devils back that dont come under his belly.
Old Satan couldnt get along without plenty of help.
Tell the truth and shame the devil.
Romance without finance dont stand a chance.
The higher the monkey climbs, the more he shows his behind.
The man Ill marry aint born yetan his mammys dead.
The very time I thought I was lost, my dungeon shook and my chains fell off.
The big bee flies high, the little bee makes the honey; the black folks makes the cotton, and the white folks get the money.
The blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice.
19311989 dancer and choreographer who founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater major works include Blues Suite and Revelations
The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; its with you all the time.
I am a person who has never completely escaped from the scars of my childhood. Racism, which leaves a shadow on ones sense of accomplishment, can make one feel like a perpetual outsider.
One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.
One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people.
Born 1943 a.k.a. H. Rap Brown writer and social activist autobiography, Die Nigger Die!
Racism systematically verifies itself anytime the slave can only be free by imitating his master.
Id rather see a cat with a processed head and a natural mind than a natural head and a processed mind. It aint whats on your head, its whats in it.
Being a man is the continuing battle for ones life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise to the authority of any power in which one does not believe.
Born 1942 The Greatest world heavyweight championship boxer and social activist sports icon autobiography, The Greatest: My Own Story
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
Champions arent made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside thema desire, a dream, a vision.... [T]hey have to have the skill, and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill.
I hated the sight on TV of big, clumsy, lumbering heavyweights plodding, stalking each other like two Frankenstein monsters, clinging, slugging toe to toe. I knew I could do it better. I would be fast as a lightweight, circle, dance, shuffle, hit, and move... dance again and make an art out of it.
The man who views the world at fifty the same way he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesnt matter which color does the hating.
I hated every minute of training, but I said, Dont quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.
It isnt the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; its the pebble in your shoe.
Rivers, ponds, lakes and streamsthey all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions dothey all contain truths.
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power to win when the match is even.
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
Silence is golden when you cant think of a good answer.
The fight is won or lost far away from witnessesbehind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.
Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map changes.
Cassius Clay is a slave name. I didnt choose it and I dont want it. I am Muhammad Ali, a free manit means Beloved of Godand I insist that people use it in speaking of and to me.
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