Photography & Art and Athletics
"I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life."
Who is Jean - Michel Basquiat?
"None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath"
Who is Marian Anderson?
"Perform well and segregation will disappear"
Who is Charles Drew?
"To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships"
Who is W.E.B. DuBois?
"To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed"
Who is Sidney Poitier?
"There's another horizon out there, one more horizon that you have to make for yourself and let other people discover it, and someone else will take it further on."
Who is Gordon Parks?
"Your wealth can be stolen, but the precious riches buried deep in your soul cannot"
Who is Minnie Riperton?
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel"
Who is Dr. Maya Angelou?
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."
Who is Barack Obama?
"Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough"
Who is Oprah Winfrey?
"But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best"
Who is Barry Bonds?
"If you don't ask, you don't get"
Who is Stevie Wonder?
"Take all the courses in your curriculum. Do the research. Ask questions. Find someone doing what you are interested in! Be curious!"
Who is Katherine Johnson?
"We must reject not only the stereotypes that others have of us but also those that we have of ourselves"
Who is Shirley Chisholm?
"I'm humble. But I also know how great God destined me to be. And when you're destined for greatness, you can't get down with mediocrity"
Who is Taraji P. Henson?
"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth"
Who is Muhammad Ali?
"Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us"
Who is Lauren Hill?
"Somebody must show that the Afro - American race is more sinned against than sinning"
Who is Ida B. Wells?
"The American dream belongs to all of us"
Who is Kamala Harris?
"When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire."
Who is Whoopi Goldberg?
"The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do"
Who is Kobe Bryant?
"Music should be your escape"
Who is Missy Elliot?
"Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it"
Who is Zora Neale Hurston?
"I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out"
Who is Serena Williams?
"The only difference between a hero and the villain is that the villain chooses to use that power in a way that is selfish and hurts other people"
Who is Chadwick Boseman?