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When things got bad, I’d just sing “Ave Maria,” which is one of my favorite songs from childhood … it was my salvation. It gave me a reason to believe that things would change.

—Aaron Neville

Children learn by seeing people doing things. If all they see are people who don’t try, it’s going to be difficult for them to try.

—Faith Ringgold

For us, Africa is not so much a lost continent as an imagined one.

—Jack E. White

Celebrating Kwanzaa is not an end in itself. Neither is having an African medallion swinging from your neck, wearing a kente cloth hat, or giving your children African names.

—Eric V. Copage

I’ve had so many downs that I knew the law of averages would be in my favor one day.

– Doug Williams