"If you control a man's thinking, you do not have to worry
about his actions. When you determine what a man shall think, you do not have to concern yourself about what he will do. If you make a man feel that he is inferior, you do not have to
compel him to accept an inferior status, for he will seek it himself. If you make a man think that he is justly an outcast, you do not have to order him to the back door. He will go
without being told; and if there is no back door, his very nature will demand one."
Dr. Carter G.
Woodson,
The "Father of Black
History" (1875-1950)
______________
Quote of the Week
February 1, 2021
"The bondage of the Negro brought captive from Africa is one of
the greatest dramas in history, and the writer who merely sees in that ordeal something to approve or condemn fails to understand the evolution of the human race."
Dr. Carter G.
Woodson,
Founder of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (now the Association
for the Study of African American Life and History)
_______________
Quote of the Week
February 8, 2021
"The "educated Negroes" have the attitude of contempt toward their
own people because in their own, as well as in their mixed schools, Negroes are taught to admire the Hebrew, the Greek, the Latin, and the Teuton, and to despise the African. Of the hundreds of
Negro high schools recently examined by an expert in the United States Bureau of Education, only 18 offer a course taking up the history of the Negro."
Dr. Carter G.
Woodson,
Author, The Miseducation of the Negro, Founder of Negro History Week (now Black History
Month)
Quote of the Week
February 15, 2021
"What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but
the history of the world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice."
Dr. Carter G.
Woodson,
Founder of the Journal of Negro History (1916) now the Journal of Black
History
Quote of the Week
February 22, 2021
"The present system under the control of whites trains the Negro to be white and at the
same time convinces him of the impropriety or the impossibility of his becoming white..."
Dr. Carter G.
Woodson,
Intellect and Educator Extraodinaire
January
Quote of
the Month
New beginnings,
y'all! Another year, another opportunity to become who we came here to be. Let's focus on discovering the tools and strategies we need to move forward. Then, each and EVERY single day, let's
try to use those strategies. It might not be easy, but it will sure be worth it!"
Dr. Rhonda
Sherrod
Soul
Survivor
_______________________
Quote of the Week
January 4, 2021
“You are your best
thing.”
Toni
Morrison,
Canonic award
-winning author
______________________
Quote of the Week
January 11, 2021
”I’m sick and tired
of being sick and tired.”
Fannie Lou
Hamer,
Human rights
activist
_____________________
Quote of the Week
January 18, 2021
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
Rev. Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr.,
Human rights
activist and martyr
"I am a woman -- gorgeously designed, brilliant, charming, mysterious, funny, bewitching, cool, and, most of all, uniquely purposed. I am my own phenomenal being,
and I own and govern myself!"
Dr. Rhonda Sherrod
QUOTE FOR THE SOUL:
"Dipped in Chocolate, Bronzed in Elegance, Enameled with Grace, Toasted with Beauty.