Showing posts with label Maya Angelou. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Maya Angelou. Show all posts

Friday, February 4, 2011

Black History Month: Inspirational quotes by Carter G. Woodson, Maya Angelou, and Arthur Ashe

Real education means to inspire people to live more abundantly, to learn to begin life as they find it and make it better... Carter G. Woodson from "The Mis-Education Of The Negro", Africa World Press, Inc.,  Washington, D.C., 1990
Carter G. Woodson
1875 - 1950

‎"Your ancestors took the lash, the branding iron, humiliations and oppression because one day they believed you would come along to flesh out the dream." --Maya Angelou from the America I AM Journal, Edited by Clarence Reynolds, Smiley Books

Dr. Maya Angelou
1928-2014

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. --Arthur Ashe, Humanitarian and World Class Tennis Star
1943 - 1993