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BLACK HISTORY MONTH

A QUOTE A DAY-Staff, students and parents are invited to think about the quote of the day and complete a writing task. Explain what the quote means. Tell how you can apply the quote in your life. Be sure to provide details and examples in your explanation. Place your writing task in the mailbox located by rooms 213 and 214.

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1. Langston Hughes “Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die, Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly.” Langston Hughes	2. Nelson Mandela “After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.” Nelson Mandela	3. President Barack Obama “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.” Barack Obama	4. Rosa Parks “I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.” Rosa Parks	5. Hank Aaron “I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you’re inferior, it makes you wonder if the other guys have something you’ve never seen before. If they do, I’m still looking for it.” Hank Aaron
8. James Baldwin “The reason people think it’s important to be white is that they think it’s important not to be black.” James Baldwin	9. Mahalia Jackson “Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.” Mahalia Jackson	10. Coretta Scott King “Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.” Coretta Scott King	11.Dizzy Gillespie “It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play.” Dizzy Gillespie	12. Michael Jordan “I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” Michael  Jordan School Closed
15. “We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.” Carter Woodson (1875-1950) on founding Negro History Week, 1926 ”. Nelson Mandela School Closed	16. Judith Jamison “Dance is bigger than the physical body. When you extend your arm, it doesn’t stop at the end of your fingers, because you’re dancing bigger than that; you’re dancing spirit.” Judith Jamison	17. Randy Foye “Believe in the Impossible” Randy Foye Dr. E. Alma Flagg graduate.	18. Toni Morrison “ Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another.” Toni Morrison	19. Maya Angelou “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” Maya Angelou
22. Malcolm X Shabazz “I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it’s for or against.” Malcolm X	23. W.E. B. Dubois “Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.” W. E. B. Du Bois	24. Nikki Giovanni “If you don’t understand yourself you don’t understand anybody else.” Nikki Giovanni	25. Richard Wright “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	26. Harriet Tubman “Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” Harriet Tubman