"Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat." Ralph Ellison October 30

"There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance next time." Malcolm X October 29

All my life I had to fight." Alice Walker October 28

"The presence of evil was something to be first recognized, then dealt with, survived, outwitted, triumphed over." Toni Morrison October 27

"Character is power." Booker T. Washington October 26

"Keep in mind always the present you are constructing. It should be the future you want." Alice Walker October 23

"Any time you beg another man to set you free, you will never be free. Freedom is something that you have to do for yourselves." Malcolm X October 22

"If you lie to yourself about your own pain, you will be killed by those who will claim you enjoyed it." Alice Walker October 21

"America is not another word for Opportunity for all her sons." W.E.B. DuBois October 20

"We're not Americans, we're Africans who happen to be in America." Malcolm X October 19

"Truth is a letter from courage!" Zora Neale Hurston October 16

"Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently." Maya Angelou October 15

“Activism is my rent for living on the planet.” Alice Walker October 14

"The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise." Maya Angelou October 13

"Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge." Toni Morrison October 12

"I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it." Maya Angelou October 9

"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." Frederick Douglass October 8

"When we revolt it's not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for a variety of reasons, we can no longer breathe." Frantz Fanon October 7

"Something that is loved is never lost." Toni Morrison October 6

"America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future." Frederick Douglass October 5

"Evil societies always kill their consciences." James L. Farmer October 2

"No man can give anybody his freedom." Stokely Carmichael October 1

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