“I don’t have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I’d become. I’m me, and I’m like nobody else.”
- Lena Horne
* Lena Horne – Singer and actress, lived in Washington Heights at 555 Edgecombe Avenue.
“I don’t have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I’d become. I’m me, and I’m like nobody else.”
- Lena Horne
* Lena Horne – Singer and actress, lived in Washington Heights at 555 Edgecombe Avenue.
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
- Steve Jobs
“I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing.
Through every dark night, theres a bright day after that.
So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up…. and handle it.”
- Tupac Shakur
Interesting fact - Born in New York City, Tupac grew up primarily in Harlem. In 1984, his family moved to Baltimore, Maryland where he became good friends with Jada Pinkett smith. His family moved again in 1988 to Oakland, California. His first breakthrough in music came in 1991 as a member of the group Digital Underground.
Tupac Shakur Performs in Hologram Form at Coachella 2012 (VIDEO)
“First you date the songs, and then you get engaged and then you marry them. They have to stand the test of time, because they are going to be yours for the next 20, 30, 40 years. So you had better choose right.”
- Marc Anthony
Interesting fact – Did you know that Marc Anthony grew up in East Harlem as the youngest of 7 children. Anthony is of Puerto Rican descent, and his parents named him after Mexican singer Marco Antonio Muniz.
“Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves in the long and bitter, but beautiful struggle for a new world. If we will but make the right choice, we will be able to speed up the day, all over America and all over the world, when justice will roll down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
-Martin Luther King
Until the philosophy which hold one race superior
And another
Inferior
Is finally
And permanently
Discredited
And abandoned -
Everywhere is war -
Me say war.
That until there no longer
First class and second class citizens of any nation
Until the colour of a man’s skin
Is of no more significance than the colour of his eyes -
Me say war.
That until the basic human rights
Are equally guaranteed to all,
Without regard to race -
Dis a war.
That until that day
The dream of lasting peace,
World citizenship
Rule of international morality
Will remain in but a fleeting illusion to be pursued,
But never attained -
Now everywhere is war – war.
And until the ignoble and unhappy regimes
that hold our brothers in Angola,
In Mozambique,
South Africa
Sub-human bondage
Have been toppled,
Utterly destroyed -
Well, everywhere is war -
Me say war.
War in the east,
War in the west,
War up north,
War down south -
War – war -
Rumours of war.
And until that day,
The African continent
Will not know peace,
We Africans will fight – we find it necessary -
And we know we shall win
As we are confident
In the victory
Of good over evil -
Good over evil, yeah!
Good over evil -
Good over evil, yeah!
Good over evil -
Good over evil, yeah!
—Bob Marley
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“Unless man is commited to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labours in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality”
- Adam Clayton Powell
“Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.”
- Russell Simmons
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“When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.”
- Maya Angelou
“Nothing will work unless you do.”
- Maya Angelou
“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.”
- Maya Angelou
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“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.”
- Frederick Douglass
“I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning… Every day I find something creative to do with my life.”
- Miles Davis
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