“Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise.” —Maya Angelou ~ Have a sizzling Saturday friend
“Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand.” ― Oprah Winfrey
“I learned from Ethel Waters, Duke Ellington, Adelaide Hall, the Nicholas Brothers, the whole thing, the whole schmear. [The Cotton Club] was a great place because it hired us, for one thing, at a time when it was really rough [for Black performers].” — Lena Horne
“The Voting Rights Act was, and still is, vitally important to the future of democracy in the United States.” — Coretta Scott King
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 Good night Friend
“I don’t do Black music. I don’t do White music. I do fight music, unified in Christ music.” —Lecrae,
"I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo." – Shirley Chisholm ~ Thinking of you Thursday, my friend
“People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in.” – Rosa Parks
“Let us never forget that Black history continues to define American history.” — Yvette D. Clarke ~ Wednesday night restful sleep friend
“The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.” — Whitney M. Young Jr.
Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? Isaiah 58:6 NIV ~ Joy and peace friend.
“In light of your longed-for return, we choose to deny ourselves (fast) certain pleasures for this brief season; but we’re not looking to get one thing from you, Jesus—just more of you.” — Scotty Smith
"No one should look down on you, but sometimes mean people do. The only justification we have for looking down on someone is that we're going to stop and pick them up," —Reverend Jesse Jackson ~ Checking In. Peaceful weekend friend
“America is not like a blanket — one piece of unbroken cloth, the same color, the same texture, the same size. America is more like a quilt: many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven and held together by a common thread.” — Reverend Jesse Jackson
(There are lovable flaws as well as unbearable virtues. Fliegende Blätter) Hello everyone,❤️ dear ones from the well-known (My Boomer Place), I wish you a Lovely evening ❤️ morning Hugs and love,❤️ Dayenne❤️ Happy Weekend ❤️
"If your success is defined as being well adjusted to injustice and well adapted to indifference, then we don't want successful leaders. We want great leaders who love the people enough and respect the people enough to be unbought, unbound, unafraid, and unintimidated to tell the truth." - Dr. Cornel West
“The music, the food, the parades – Mardi Gras is everything that makes New Orleans special.” – Harry Connick Jr.
“The New Black doesn’t blame others for our issues. The New Black dreams and realizes that it’s not a pigmentation; it’s a mentality. And it’s either going to work for you, or it’s going to work against you. And you’ve got to pick the side that you’re going to be on.” —Pharrell Williams
“Mardi Gras is the love of life. It is the harmonic convergence of our food, our music, our creativity, our eccentricity, our neighborhoods, and our joy of living. All at once.” — Chris Rose
“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?” Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.” Matthew 22:36-40 NKJV ~ Sunday night peace and blessings
"On this Valentine's Day, I want to confess that my life changed after you entered it. It's never been the same for me, and I want to cherish you for the rest of my life. Will you allow me to love you and call you mine forever?"
"You make every day better just by being in it. You light up my world like nobody else. I never thought I could love someone as much as I love you. Will you be mine ?"
“I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.” — Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Checking In friend
“There are two types of laws: there are just laws and there are unjust laws... What is the difference between the two? ... An unjust law is a man-made code that is out of harmony with the moral law.” — Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
“I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality, and freedom for their spirits.” — Rev Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Nobel Peace Prize 1964 acceptance speech
“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” — Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Address in Washington D.C.
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