If you have no confidence in self
you are twice defeated in the race of life.

With confidence you have won even before you have started.

      — Marcus Garvey

Hold fast to dreams,
for if dreams die, life
is a broken winged
bird that cannot fly.

    — Langston Hughes

Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.
 

 — George Washington
   Carver, 1907

You're either part of the solution or part of the problem.

   — Eldridge Cleaver,
     1968

Never exalt people because they're in your family; never exalt people because they're your color. Never exalt people because they're your kinfolk.  Exalt them because they're worthy.

   — Louis Farrakhan,
     1985