<p>For better or worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life. -Dale Carnegie</p><p>The price of your hat isn’t the measure of your brain. -Traditional</p><p>No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helps you. -Althea Gibson, in Time, 26 August 1957</p><p>"Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas." Jose Marti quotes (Cuban Writer, 1853-1895)</p><p>Great things are not done by impulse but by a series of small things brought together. - Vincent van Gogh</p><p>There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long range risks and cost of comfortable inaction. -John F. Kennedy</p><p>Words are nothing but words; power lies in deeds. Be a man of action. -Mali Griot Mamadou Kouyate, Sundiata, An Epic of Old Mali, 1217-1237 A.D.</p><p>I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free. -Marcus Garvey, Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, 1929</p><p>Africa is not only our mother, but in light of the most recent science is beginning to appear as the mother of civilization. -Alain Locke, “Apropos of Africa,” Opportunity, February 1924</p><p>There are four stages of humankind: Infancy…childhood…adolescence… and absolescence. -Art Linkletter</p><p>Age is nectar. -Wole Soyinka, Kongi’s Harvest, 1967</p><p>I love America more than any other country in the world, and exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. -James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son, 1955</p><p>America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America. -Jimmy Carter You cannot legislate attitude. -H. Rap Brown, Die Nigger Die, 1970</p><p>Remember, whatever game you play, 90 percent of success is from the shoulders up. -Arnold Palmer’s father</p><p>My belief in [Martin Luther King] overcame even my disbelief in America. -Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens, 1983</p><p>Somehow I can’t believe that there are any heights that can’t be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four c’s. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of these is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably. -Walt Disney</p><p>Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history. -Ralph Abernathy, c. 1962</p><p>Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy, sweat will get you change. -Jesse Jackson</p><p>A slave has no choice. -Egypt</p><p>God has given us two incredible things: absolutely awesome ability and freedom of choice. The tragedy is that, for the most part, many of us have refused them both. -Frank Donnelly</p><p>"Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive." Jose Marti quotes (Cuban Writer, 1853-1895)</p><p>Sonje lapli ki leve mayi ou: Remember the rain that made your corn grow. Haitian proverb</p><p>Le yo vle touye chen yo di'l fou When they want to kill a dog they say its crazy. Haitian Proverb</p><p>Just when you are having fun, reality sets in. Betty McDonald</p>