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

When people are determined, they can overcome anything.

-Nelson Mandela

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 high.

-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

 When people are determined, they can overcome anything.

-Nelson Mandela

I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change, I'm changing the things I cannot accept.

-Angela Davis

Think like a Queen.  A Queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.

-Oprah Winfrey

All limits are self imposed.

-Icarus

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

-Martin Luther King Jr

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

-Jim Rohn

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.

-Marcus Garvey

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

-Albert Einstein

If you're always trying to be normal, you'll never know how amazing you can be.

-Maya Angelou

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

-Edward E. Cummings

Never try to destroy someone's life with a lie when yours could be destroyed by the truth.

-Anon

For these are our children.  We will all profit by, or pay for, whatever they become.

-James Baldwin

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

-Frederick Douglas

You can't be hesitant about who you are.

-Viola Davis

Never let anyone, any person or any force, dampen, dim or diminish your light.

-Congressman John Lewis

You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously.

-Sophia Bush

Don't associate yourself with toxic people.  It's better to be alone and love yourself than surrounded by people who make you hate yourself.

-Robin Williams

You cannot heal in the same environment where you got sick.

-Anon

If you can stay positive in a negative situation, you win.

-Anon

The art of knowledge is knowing what to ignore.

-Anon

Just because you lost me as a friend doesn't mean you gained me as an enemy.  I still wanna see you eat, but just not at my table.

-Tupac Shakur

Sit with winners, the conversation will be different.

-Anon

If you run into a wall, don't run around it and give up.  Figure out how to climb it, go through it or work around it.

-Michael Jordan

The successful Warrior is the average man, with a laser-like focus.

-Bruce Lee

If you are tired, keep going, if you are scared, keep going, if you are hungry, keep going, and if you want to taste freedom, keep going.

-Harriet Tubman

Not everyone will understand and see your journey.  Always be yourself and focus on your path.

-Truthseeker

Success is to be measured not by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

-Booker T. Washington

Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality.

-Bob Marley

Stand for something or you will fall for anything.  Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held it's ground.

-Rosa Parks

What we call our enemy may be nothing more than our teacher.  Find, analyse and learn your lesson.

-Linford Sweeney

If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.

-Marvin Gaye

You don't have to be great to get started, but you have to start to be great.

-Les Brown

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don't just be mad at him or her.

-Denzil Washington

The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

-Steve Jobs

Sometimes all you can do is accept there's not much you can do, and sometimes all you can control is how well you let go of control

-Lori Deschene

You are not a victim, just a fighter with scars that few understand.

-Anon

Have the courage to be disliked.

-Ichiro Kishimi

Be a yardstick of quality.  Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

-Steve Jobs

It's not my job to be likeable.  It's my job to be myself.  The right people will gravitate.

-Rashaun Will

No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

-Plato

If you don't build your dream, someone will hire you to help build theirs.

-Dhirubhai Ambani

The world is changed by your example not by your opinion.

-Paulo Coelho

The struggles along the way are only meant to shape you for your purpose.

-Chadwick Boseman

In times of crisis, the wise build bridges while the foolish build barriers.  We must find a way to look after each other as if we were one tribe.

-King T'Challa

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight and no vision.

-Helen Keller

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

-George Washington Carver

The comeback must always be stronger than the setback.

-Anon

The hardest walk is walking alone, but it's also the walk that makes you the strongest.

-Anon