Black History #Breakthrough with Oprah

#BlackHistory ~ Self-esteem means knowing you are the dream. ~Oprah Winfrey

Black History #Breakthrough with Rev. Jesse Jackson

#BlackHistory ~ Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive. Don't you surrender! Suffering breeds character, character breeds faith. In the end faith will not disappoint. ~Rev. Jesse Jackson, Keep Hope Alive

Black History #Breakthrough with James Baldwin

#BlackHistory ~ People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead. ~James Baldwin (1924-1987), Nobody Knows My Name (1961)

Black History #Breakthrough with Katherine Dunham

#BlackHistory ~ I used to want the words "She tried" on my tombstone. Now I want "She did it." ~Katherine Dunham (1910-2006), quoted in Black Pearls by Eric V. Copage (1993)

Black History #Breakthrough with Marian Wright Edelman

#BlackHistory ~ The question is not whether we can afford to invest in every child; it is whether we can afford not to. ~Marian Wright Edelman ((1939-), The Measure of Our Success (1992)

Black History #Breakthrough with Booker T. Washington

#BlackHistory ~ Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.  ~Booker T. Washington (1856-1915), Up From Slavery (1901)

Black History #Breakthrough with Harriet Tubman

#BlackHistory ~ When I found I had crossed that line, [on her first escape from slavery, 1845] I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such a glory over everything. ~Harriet Tubman (1820?-1913) to her biographer, Sarah H. Bradford, c. 1868