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Overview
Heart Full of Grace contains many powerful quotes from traditional African sources, as well as African American writers, political leaders, artists, sports heroes, and the anonymous slaves and soldiers who fought and sacrificed for freedom, their families, and the future. Their words offer inspiration, consolation, encouragement, and enlightenment.
Invaluable as a reference or as a rich mine of African American culture and history, Heart Full of Grace reflects a thousand years of struggle, strength, and triumph.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780684825427 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Touchstone |
| Publication date: | 02/05/1997 |
| Pages: | 320 |
| Sales rank: | 448,345 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.70(d) |
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From: Achievement
Nothing in the universe is attained by doing nothing. You must always give something to get something. It's extremely basic, you can't fill a cup without giving up its contents first. You can't even move to a new place in a room without giving up the space you now occupy. In other words sacrifice is a basic concept of our universe.
— Afro-Cuban Rite
It is only what is written upon the soul of man that will survive the wreck of time.
— Francis James Grimké
When do any of us do enough?
— Barbara Jordan
We ain't what we want to be; we ain't what we gonna be; but thank God, we ain't what we was.
— African-American Folk Saying
Every man is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.
— Benjamin E. Mays
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
— Muhammad Ali
The human race does command its own destiny and that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.
— Lorraine Hansberry
Up, you mighty race, you can accomplish what you will.
— Marcus Garvey
Dissatisfaction with possession and achievement is one of the requisites to further achievement.
— John Hope Franklin
A man scratches where he can reach.
— Ashanti Proverb
To struggle and battle and overcome and absolutely defeat every force designed against us is the only way to achieve.
— Nannie Burroughs
No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helps you.
— Althea Gibson
I learned that along with the towering achievements of the cultures of ancient Greece and China there stood the culture of Africa, unseen and denied by the imperialist looters of Africa's material wealth.
— Paul Robeson
We now number as many souls as won the freedom of your sires from British rule. We may not now be as capable to govern ourselves as they were, but we will, with your aid, be as zealous, and with God's blessing, we will be as successful.
— From a Petition Requesting Congress to Relocate Freed Slaves to Central America, 1862
I think that art is a celebration of life even when life extends into death and that the sociological conditions which have made for so much misery in Negro life are not necessarily the only factors which make for the values which I feel should endure and shall endure.
— Ralph Ellison
Copyright © 1995 by Elizabeth A. Ryan
Table of Contents
ContentsPreface
Achievement
Africa
Age
Ambition
America
Anger
Beauty
Blues
Brotherhood
Challenge
Confdence
Courage
Culture
Death
Despair
Dignity
Discrimination
Dreams
Education
Effort
Equality
Fear
Folklore
Freedom/Liberty
Goals
God
Happiness
Hate
Heritage
Honor
Hope
Humor
Identity
Ignorance
Justice
Knowledge
Loneliness
Love
Money
Motivation
Music
Opportunity
Poverty
Power
Pride
Racism
Respect
Responsibility
Revolution
Shame
Signifying
Slavery
The South
Success
Suffering
Truth
Unity
Victory
Violence
Wisdom
Women
Youth
Index of Names
Acknowledgments