Quotes from Johnnetta B. Cole

The woman who bore me is no longer alive, but I seem to be her daughter in increasingly profound ways.

Show me someone content with mediocrity and I'll show you someone destined for failure.

What you give ought to be in direct relationship to what you've received. If you have been blessed with a great deal, then you have a lot of giving to do.

Now, if you want to know my secret love, it is to be able to serve as an example.

the trouble with a woman standing behind her man is that she can't see where she is going!

The myth of black women profiting at the expense of black men is the oldest rap around.

An education that teaches you to understand something about the world has done only half of the assignment. The other half is to teach you to do something about making the world a better place.

The content of the curriculum should never exclude the realities of the very students who must intellectually wrestle with it. When students study all worlds except their own, they are miseducated.

If folks can learn to be racist, then they can learn to be anti racist. If being sexist ain't genetic, then, dad gum, people can learn about gender equality.

The histories of the poor and the powerless are as important as those of their conquerors, their colonizers, their kings and queens.