The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness. Marcus Mosiah Garvey.

My Alma mater was books, a good library… I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. Malcolm X

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. Martin Luther King Jr.

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.