Quotes About Black Excellence

#1. My mother and father taught me about black excellence and dynasty. They experienced racism personally, and when something like that happens to you and not around you, you develop a different perception than someone who has never experienced racism a day in their lives.

Lizzo

#2. In our community here in Boston, we have had a tremendous influx of Russian Jews and Haitians. We call these people immigrants. But they come for the same reasons that William Bradford and William Brewster and John Carver came.

Kathryn Lasky

#3. Every advantage is temporary.

Katerina Stoykova Klemer

#4. But the past has a way of taking you to the right place at the wrong time, and that can be a storm inside.

Gregory David Roberts

#5. Busy Building FUND$ While Y'all Have FUN.

Stephanie Lahart

#6. You must either suffer in this life or give up the hope of seeing God in Heaven. Sufferings and persecutions are of the greatest avail to us, because we can find therein a very efficient means to make atonement for our sins, since we are bound to suffer for them either in this world or in the next.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

#7. Just remember, Braithwaite. While you were learning to be a fool at Oxford I was learning to kill men. And I learned well.

Bernard Cornwell

#8. What did Diane know about this? What was her connection? Could she be the mastermind behind the blond man and the man in the tan jacket holding a deerskin suitcase and maybe even Jackie's mother's strange behavior?

Joseph Fink

#9. I think there's nothing worse than telling actors what to do in front of everyone, because then on the next take, everyone's waiting to see if you do that ... Everyone watches. It's just the worst thing.

Richard Ayoade

#10. Don't be troubled if you don't feel the love of God in yourself, but thing about the Lord, that He is merciful, and guard yourself from sins, and the grace of God will teach you.

Silouan The Athonite

#11. The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence?

Walter Dean Myers

#12. We were wonderful, but we were not flawless. We knew excellence because we knew failure. We were human beings.

Daniel Black

#13. Don't tell me you're going to be on the honor roll. Shut up! Go to work! And show me!

Eric Thomas

#14. Labels only stick if I let them.

Lysa TerKeurst

#15. I know most of the black players who preceded and followed me at Duke. They all contribute to our tradition of excellence on the court.

Grant Hill

#16. Let me say this: I only expect the black media to uphold the standards of excellence in journalism and when you do that, you have to go in with a neutral mind.

Bill Cosby

#17. Greatness is measured by how one faces adversity. Everyone can be committed when things are going well.

Susan Mallery

#18. Defense is attack, attack is defense, each being the cause and result of the other.

Bruce Lee

#19. Do not think that I have come to bring peace on earth. I have not come to bring peace, but the sword. MATTHEW 10:34

Reza Aslan

#20. Perhaps it is a fault of the species who thrive in peace, mutual help, aspirations for more of the same
to forget that outside these borders dwell very different types of mind, feeding on different fuel.

Doris Lessing