A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

-Marcus Garvey

We must become bigger than we have been, more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.

-Haile Selassie

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

-Bob Marley

You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world's problems at once but don't ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.

-Michelle Obama

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

-Lao Tzu

It takes a village to raise a child.

-African Proverb

A child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.

-African Proverb

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do.

-Pele

It always seems impossible until it's done.

-Nelson Mandela

To err is human, to forgive, divine.

-Alexander Pope

Success is liking what you do and liking how you do it.

-Maya Angelou

When your intentions are pure you don't lose anyone...they lose you.

-Nipsey Hussle

When you start seeing your worth you'll find it harder to stay around people who don't.

-Anon

It's ok if some people don't like you; not everyone has good taste.

-Rihanna

The worst part about having a mental illness is people expect you to behave as if you don't.

-Joker

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

-Martin Luther King

Don't let success go to your head, and failure to your heart.

-Will Smith

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

-Martin Luther King Jr.

If everyone does a little, no one has to do a lot.

-Charles Harper.

When someone tells you who they are, believe them.

-Maya Angelou.

Refuse to lower your standards to accommodate those who refuse to raise theirs.

-Anonymous

Whoever is trying to bring you down is already below you.

-Anon

Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come; get up and make them.

-Madam C.J. Walker

A man who uses force is afraid of reasoning.

-Kenyan Proverb

I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me.

-Kwame Nkrumah

We are failing because we're willing to do everything for money but not willing to do anything for our people.

-Muhammad Ali

You don't become what you want, you become what you believe.

-Oprah Winfrey

Sometimes you have to make a decision that will hurt your heart but heal your soul.

-Anon

Instead of judging others' circumstances, how about asking...is there anything I can do to help?.

-The Safeguarding Agency

Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself...and then stand up for someone else.

-Maya Angelou

There comes a point where we need to just stop pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they're falling in.

-Desmond Tutu

I am what I am because of who we all are.

-Ubuntu Philosophy

When they go low, we go higher.

-Michelle Obama

If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.

-Martin Luther King Jr

If a person gets up after a fall, it is not physics but character.

-Mike Tyson

It's better to walk alone than to walk with a crowd going in the wrong direction.

-Malcolm X

Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings.

-Angela Davis

The results come when you align yourself with positive energy.

-Anon

Failure is success in progress.

-Albert Einstein

We repeat what we don't repair.

-Anon

Life is like a bicycle, to keep your balance you have to keep moving.

-Albert Einstein

The sky has no limits, neither should you.

-Usain Bolt

If you are free, you need to free somebody else.  If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.

-Toni Morrison

You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.

-Bob Marley

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time. We are the one's we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

-Barack Obama