Blackprint Project Quote of The Day: Best of 2014

June 2014

"You can't win if you don't play as a unit." Kareem Abdul Jubbar June 30, 2014

"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." James Baldwin June 27, 2014

"Not only was I not born to be a slave: I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave-master. They had, the masters, incontestably, the rope- in time, with enough, they would hang themselves with it. They were not to hang me: I was to see to that." James Baldwin June 26, 2014

"Any unarmed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given moment." Huey Newton June 25, 2014

"The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim has ceased to be a victim: he or she has become a threat." James Baldwin June 24, 2014

"To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time." James Baldwin June 23, 2014

"I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion." Malcolm X June 20, 2014

"Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more." Stokely Carmichael June 19, 2014

"There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up." Booker T. Washington June 18, 2014

"At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence." Booker T. Washington June 17, 2014

"Is it a crime to fight for what is mine?" Tupac Shakur June 16, 2014 Bonus

"Look for me in a whirlwind or a storm." Marcus Garvey June 16, 2014

"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean." Maya Angelou June 13, 2014

"We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery because whilst others might free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind." Marcus Garvey June 12, 2014

"It is not about how much money you make. The question is are you educated enough to KEEP it." Shaquille O'Neal June 11, 2014

"A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots." Marcus Garvey June 10, 2014

"Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men." Marcus Garvey June 9, 2014

"A right delayed is a right denied." Martin Luther King Jr. June 6, 2014

"The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house." Audre Lorde June 5, 2014

"Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality, or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it." Malcolm X June 4, 2014

"Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery." Malcolm X June 3, 2014

"Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him." Maya Angelou June 2, 2014

May 2014

"I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it." Harriet Tubman May 30, 2014

"To run is not necessarily to arrive." Swahili Proverb May 29, 2014

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain." Maya Angelou May 28, 2014 Bonus

"Early in life I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise." Malcolm X May 28, 2014

"However long the night the dawn will break." African Proverb May 27, 2014

"If I'm following a general and he's leading me into battle, and the enemy tends to give him rewards, or awards, I get suspicious of him. Especially if he gets a peace award before the war is over." Malcolm X May 26, 2014

"In the moment of crisis, the wise build bridges and the foolish build dams." Nigerian Proverb May 23, 2014

"However far the stream flows, it never forgets its source." Yoruba Proverb May 22, 2014

"You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself." Malcolm X May 21, 2014

"A spider's cobweb isn't only its sleeping spring, but also its food trap." African Proverb May 20, 2014

"To get lost is to learn the way." African Proverb May 19, 2014

"Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change." Malcolm X May 19, 2014 Bonus

"Cross the river in a crowd and the crocodile won't eat you." African Proverb May 16, 2014

"An army of sheep led by a lion can defeat an army of lions led by a sheep." Ghanaian Proverb May 15, 2014

"I am where I am because of the bridges that I crossed. Sojourner Truth was a bridge. Harriet Tubman was a bridge. Ida B. Wells was a bridge. madame C.J. Walker was a bridge. Fannie Lou Hamer was a bridge." Oprah Winfrey May 14, 2014

"If you are filled with pride, then you will have no room for wisdom." African Proverb May 13, 2014

"He who fears the sun will not become chief." Ugandan Proverb May 12, 2014

"We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are." Oprah Winfrey May 9, 2014

"If you stick a knife nine inches into my back and pull it out three inches, that is not progress. Even if you pull it all the way out, that is not progress. Progress is healing the wound, and America hasn't even begun to pull out the knife." Malcolm X May 8, 2014

"If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." African Proverb May 7, 2014

"He who thinks he is leading and has no one following him is only taking a walk." Malawian Proverb May 6, 2014

"Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything." Ernest Gaines May 5, 2014

March 2014

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will." Frederick Douglas March 25, 2014

"Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible." George Washington Carver March 24, 2014

"Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable...Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals." Martin Luther King, Jr. March 21, 2014

"The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man." Huey Newton March 20, 2014

"The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing." Richard Wright March 19, 2014

"The future belongs to those who prepare for it today." Malcolm X March 18, 2014

"Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies." Nelson Mandela March 17, 2014

"I'm not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court." Kareem Abdul-Jabbar March 14, 2014

"Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them; the chains on all of my people were the chains on me." Nelson Mandela March 13, 2014

"I do not expect the white media to create positive Black male images." Huey P. Newton March 12, 2014

"The mere imparting of information is not education." Carter G. Woodson March 11, 2014

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today." Malcolm X March 10, 2014

"When people are determined, they can accomplish anything." Nelson Mandela March 10, 2014

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