Interactive Site Gallery “Truth is power and it prevails.” -Sojourner Truth “Just don’t give up what you’re trying to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” -Ella Fitzgerald “Don’t settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had. We need to live the best that’s in us.” -Angela Bassett “What’s the world for if you can’t make it up the way you want it?” -Toni Morrison “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 “If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.” -Shirley Chisholm “I am not going to die; I’m going home like a shooting star.” -Sojourner Truth “Did you know that the human voice is the only pure instrument? That it has notes no other instrument has? It’s like being between the keys of a piano.” -Nina Simone “If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go.” -James Baldwin "We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.” -Gwendolyn Brooks As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might -Marian Anderson “There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.” -Michelle Obama “Won’t it be wonderful when black history and Native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.” -Maya Angelou “Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough.” -Billie Holiday “Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place” -Zora Neale Hurston “When we get together, it isn’t just to have a party. We might be planning a revolution at the same time” -Derrick Adams “Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations.” —Dr. Mae Jemison -Dr. Mae Jemison “Dreams are lovely but they are just dreams. Fleeting, ephemeral, pretty. But dreams do not come true just because you dream them. It’s hard work that makes things happen. It’s hard work that creates change.” -Shonda Rhimes “The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.” -Maya Angelou “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” -Muhammad Ali “A man without knowledge of himself and his heritage is like a tree without roots.” -Dick Gregory “The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.” -Ida B. Wells “When we’re talking about diversity, it’s not a box to check. It is a reality that should be deeply felt and held and valued by all of us.” -Ava DuVernay “Stretch your mind and fly.” -Whitney M. Young Jr “If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn’t been written yet, you must be the one to write it.” -Toni Morrison