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WHAT DO I DO?
Accomplished African Americans who say good
things.
Louis Armstrong - Musician
“All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.”
Trumpeteer, Musician, Composer.
Zora Neal Hurston
Happiness is nothing but everyday living seen through a veil.
Author, Anthropologist.
Arthur Ashe.
Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.
Athlete, Tennis Player, wimbleton winner, activist.
Barbara C. Jordan
"We, the people." It is a very
eloquent beginning. But when that
document [the Preamble to the US
Constitution] was completed on the
seventeenth of September in
1787 I was not included in that
"We, the people." I felt somehow
for many years that George
Washington and Alexander
Hamilton, just left me out by
mistake. But through the process of
amendment, interpretation and
court decision I have finally been
included in "We, the people."
Lawyer, Educator, US Congresswoman.
Jesse Jackson
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you
sympathy; sweat will get you change. -
Minister, Activist, Democratic Presiidential Nominee
Bill Cosby
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
American comedian, actor, author, television producer and activist
Michael Jordan
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Athlete, Basketball Player, Successfully Business Owner
Oprah Winfrey
I don’t think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of
myself as someone who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I
had to make good.
American television presenter, media mogul and philanthropist
Alvin Ailey
I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not
important. What is important is the quality of our work.
Artist, Dancer, Choreographer, Theatre Founder
WHAT WILL YOU DO?