Martin, Marcus, Malcolm

[Arteyez]

Like this... ALOT!!

[Qarrie]

Ichuway is owned by the Woodruff family of the Coca Cola company.

[Qarrie]

Bumpersticker:

CAUTION - Driver legally blonde!

[Qarrie]

Defense lawyers ask the Department of Justice to intervene. U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy tells the press on August 31st that the FBI saw no police brutality or misconduct, and that the department would not challenge the Seditious Conspiracy prosecution. Movement activists see this as a cynical political ploy by the Kennedys to curry favor with segregationists in anticipation of the 1964 election.

[EvonneGussie]

Since the 17th century, most leather shoes have used a sewn-on sole.

[HarmonyOneLove]

MORTIMER ADLER:

The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.

[Z2Qazo]

The sorority responded to the call for help in fall 2005 after Hurricane Katrina, by raising money for a disaster relief fund.

[HarmonyOneLove]

We can find common ground only by moving to higher ground.

-J. Wallis

[HarperGleeman]

But then as now, there were no black conservatives in the sense that all Afro-Americans preferred change to preservation of the status quo.

[Lezzy2DN]

ELLA WHEELER WILCOX:

All love that has not friendship for its base,

Is like a mansion built upon the sand.

[TandyARTLOVER]

Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life.

[JakEyeNEye]

Activists are people who:

Read about and study issues and politics, Organize and attend meetings, Discuss and plan strategy, Pass out leaflets, Knock on doors, Circulate petitions, Speak in public, Engage in protests, Build community organizations, Work on election campaigns, Run for office, and so on

[HarperGleeman]

While other countries have at least acknowledged their wrongs against people of color, the US still does not and refuse to change.

[EvonneGussie]

The earliest designs were simple affairs, often mere "foot bags" of leather to protect the feet from rocks, debris, and cold. Since a shoe uses more leather than a sandal, their use was more common amongst people in cold climates.

[AfricanArtFan]

"...blood stained spears..."

[Seminole5050]

Happy February -- the month of Black History. Happy Black History month.

[Qarrie]

Seems to me that the institutions that function in this country are clearly racist, and that they're built upon racism.

Stokely Carmichael

[EvonneGussie]

its so kul listning 2 all t good soulful muzik

[TandyARTLOVER]

Little kids draw pictures of the ground, the sky, and space in between. If you ask them what the in-between space is, they say 'that's where we are.'

- Ed McCullough

[AfricanArtFan]

If we do not keep our history in rememberance, no one else will.

[Qarrie]

The Sheriff summons reinforcements and they arrest 77 demonstrators. State Troopers break a marcher's leg with a baseball bat, and a Black man discovered walking in a white neighborhood is killed by a cop who shoots him in the back. A total of 7 police and 28 protesters require medical attention.

[TandyARTLOVER]

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books. (Charlie Chaplin)

[JakEyeNEye]

African American

Joyce J. Scott

Sculptor

[HarmonyOneLove]

All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten. (Twain)

[EvonneGussie]

Appearance and design have varied enormously through time, and from culture to culture.

[Lezzy2DN]

All love that has not friendship for its base,

Is like a mansion built upon the sand.

[HarmonyOneLove]

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

[JakEyeNEye]

And just three years later in North Carolina, the state Republican Party, the Helms for Senate Committee and others sent postcards to 125,000 voters, 97 percent of whom were African-American, giving them false information about voter eligibility and warning of criminal penalties for voter fraud - again resulting in a decree against the use of race to target voters.

[TandyARTLOVER]

No matter how much you try to assimilate, the huge granite mountain of racism in America cannot be denied--it speaks silently and audibly against the very core of your being.

[HarmonyOneLove]

Study as if you were going to live forever; live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

[7284978301]

The family is from the Acoma Native American tribe.

[TandyARTLOVER]

People are always so boring when they band together. You have to be alone to develop all the idiosyncrasies that make a person interesting. (A. Warhol)

[Qarrie]

...when you've got some coffee that's too black, which means it's too strong, what do you do? You integrate it with cream... But if you pour too much cream in it, you won't even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it puts you to sleep.

(Malcolm X)

[JakEyeNEye]

It isn't the province of a single political party, although patterns of intimidation have changed as the party allegiances of minority communities have changed.

Over the past two decades, the Republican Party has launched a series of "ballot security" and "voter integrity" initiatives that have have targeted minority communities.

[HarmonyOneLove]

LOU ANN WALKER:

Theories and goals of education don't matter a whit if you don't consider your students to be human beings.

[EvonneGussie]

Happy Black History Month, 2010!

[Lezzy2DN]

ELIE WIESEL:

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenera' n2 obses~, friendship is never anything but shar'.

[JakEyeNEye]

In 2002 in Louisiana, flyers were distributed in African American communities telling voters they could go to the polls on Tuesday,

December 10th - three days after a Senate runoff election was actually held.

[HarperGleeman]

Several liberal minded white friends visited me in jail, and did their best for me in the cause of justice.

[HarmonyOneLove]

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

[AfricanArtFan]

2 b cre8tv s 2 b alive.

[EvonneGussie]

The lasting pincer is a good tool and is still occasionally useful; with it a century ago a man with great effort might form or last a few pair in a long day.

[AfricanArtFan]

Hv u noticd hw hard it s 2 find blk hstry vids on YT tt r pro blk?

[7284978301]

The family belongs to the Acjachemen tribe.

[JakEyeNEye]

African-Americans comprise 83 percent of Detroit's population.

In South Dakota's June 2004 primary, Native American voters were prevented from voting after they were challenged to provide photo IDs, which they were not required to present under state or federal law.

[HarperGleeman]

My case was well known to them, so that when I arrived at the jail, they were all surprised and disgusted at the results.

[HarmonyOneLove]

Correction does much, but encouragement does

much more.

[TandyARTLOVER]

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

[7284978301]

I do not know anyone who is a member of the Achumawi tribe personally.

[HarmonyOneLove]

WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING:

But the ground of a man's [sic] culture lies in his nature, not in his calling. His powers are to be unfolded on account of their inherent dignity, not their outward direction. He is to be educated, because he is a man, not because he is to make shoes, nail, or pins.

[EvonneGussie]

Inventors have often mechanized hand operations that seemed impossible for any machine.

[Z2Qazo]

Sponsored by Daimler Chrysler, ON TRACK was designated to "improve communication, academics, physical and emotional health, peer leadership, etiquette, and interpersonal relationships."

[TandyARTLOVER]

(O. Wilde)

Paradoxically though it may seem,

it is none the less true

that life imitates art

far more than art imitates life.

[Qarrie]

ON FREEDOM

The price of freedom is death.

Malcolm X

[AfricanArtFan]

He made some of the same points made by Malcolm X.

[Hazel4159Silver]

Matt3v5, 6 Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan, And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.

[HarmonyOneLove]

It is not so important to know everything as to appreciate what we learn. (H. More)

[EvonneGussie]

These machines became successful under the management of Charles Goodyear, Jr., the son of the famous inventor of the process of vulcanizing rubber.

[7284978301]

My friend is a member of the

Achumawi Native American

tribe.

[Z2Qazo]

Soon after the sorority's 75th anniversary, Alpha Kappa Alpha contributed funds to decrease Africa's poverty with the establishment of African Village Development Program (AVDP).

[TandyARTLOVER]

It s worth mentioning, 4 future reference, tt t creative powr whh bubbles so pleasantly n begin' a nu book quiets down after a time, & 1 goes on more steadily. Doubts creep n. Thn 1 becomes resigned. Determina~ not 2 give n, & t sense f an impend' shape kEp 1 at it more than nEthing.

Virginia Woolf

[Qarrie]

I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets.

Stokely Carmichael

[Lezzy2DN]

When a friend s n trouble, don't annoy him by ask' if there is anything u can do. Think up something appropriate & do it.

[JakEyeNEye]

A 2004 report issued by People for the America Way (PFAW) and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) listed numerous examples of intimidation and voter suppression efforts aimed at racial minorities.

[Hazel4159Silver]

3. For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.

[11Nov2011]

As we prepare to celebrate the coming month of the year for Black History, let's remember those who are descendants of the Motherland have a unique spirituality. Many have ignored and rejected it in order to assimilate. Many are awakening to it. Many are developing what they have known for quite some time.

[HarperGleeman]

They never placed a penny in it, yet they are so aggrieved.

[HarperGleeman]

These r t ppl whom my enemies accuse me f defraud'.

[HarperGleeman]

I had none when I was tried, and none when I was convicted and sentenced, because I gave all to the movement, but the people whom I served, and who know me, did not desert me.

[HarmonyOneLove]

Much learning does not teach understanding.

[EvonneGussie]

McKay quickly found that in order to ensure payment for the use of the machines it was necessary to keep them in operation.

[7284978301]

They all sang a traditional Native American song.

[7284978301]

He is a member of the Absaalooke Native American tribe.

[JakEyeNEye]

In both Florida and Ohio in 2004, for example, GOP operatives threatened to monitor Black precincts to insure the sanctity of the presidential contest.

[JustALilFaith]

West's views on religion are certainly non-traditional.

[Qarrie]

Bumpersticker:

Eat Well, Stay Fit, Die Anyway

[TandyARTLOVER]

When you create you get a little endorphin rush. Why do you think Einstein looked like that?

-Robin Williams

[Z2Qazo]

These pamphlets were a series of biographies of top African-American women. Altogether, the entire collection contained "Women in the Judiciary," "Women in Politics," "Women in Medicine," "Women in Business," and "Women in Dentistry".

[Qarrie]

Americus Georgia (pop 15,000) is the seat of Sumter County where Blacks are a majority. (Ten miles down the road lives a peanut farmer named Jimmy Carter who becomes President in 1976.)

[Hazel4159Silver]

God is good - All the time.

[JustALilFaith]

What is SNCC?

[Muviz2c]

He acknowledged the desire to change his life.

[HarperGleeman]

Some persons are worthy of, and dignify any position that they hold, others on the other hand, at their best are but libels to decency and propriety.

[Z2Qazo]

Shown is a picture of the Lois Mailou Jones designed Founders' Memorial Window located in Rankin Chapel at Howard University.

[AnnahMayy]

Thx so much 4 let' me kno bout it.

[Z2Qazo]

On August 20, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Economic Opportunity Act, which allowed the creation of the Job Corps.

[HarmonyOneLove]

Find ur li8 source & rest n it.

[TandyARTLOVER]

To be imaginative is to be alive.

[HarperGleeman]

I am not blaming the government for my conviction and detention in jail.

[Qarrie]

"In the South, courage is a quite thing. It may be born in a candle-lit farmhouse far back on a cornfield late one night over a pot of greens. Or one morning a man might wake up and decide to go down to the courthouse to register and because he doesn't have a car he might walk the nine miles to town.

[Qarrie]

Expanding outward from their base in Albany, SNCC's Southwest Georgia project begins voter registration campaigns in the rural "plantation" counties where Blacks are a majority and a reign of terror maintains white-supremecy with club, gun, jail, and bomb. In the words of SNCC field secretary Peggy Dammond writing from the field:

[TandyARTLOVER]

Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of. (G. Weitzman)

[HarperGleeman]

The experience I have had, will help me greatly in the determination and conduct of the work that is ahead of me.

[TandyARTLOVER]

Artistic creativity is a whirlpool of imagination that swirls in the depths of the mind. (Robert Toth)

[AfricanArtFan]

It wz t most faithful say' I hd evr hurd.

[EvonneGussie]

This meant that, in the event a new shoe style suddenly became popular and called for major changes in shoe construction methods and production equipment, the manufacturer wasn't left with a huge investment in machinery made obsolete by these changes - nor with the prospect of further investment for new machines.

[Z2Qazo]

According to Collier-Thomas, the ACHR drew attention to legislation concerning education, transportation, employment, and improving equality in the armed forces and public places.

[HarperGleeman]

M. Garvey

I am not peeved at what has been done to me; it is natural and expected, that in an effort like mine to serve humanity -and blacks' humanity at that,- that powerful enemies will be encountered.

[HarperGleeman]

The whole world is run on bluff.

-M. Garvey

[AfricanArtFan]

T bigst pt f me blongs 2 u.

[Qarrie]

Ty wer ncuragd 2 rEd t novels.

[Z2Qazo]

Financially, Alpha Kappa Alpha expanded funding for projects in 1953 through the creation and trademark of a fashion show called Fashionetta.

[JakEyeNEye]

James White: During the time [in the Army] when I was stationed out in Arizona for desert training, my sister had passed, and they sent me a telegram, — I think Sunday, — and I didn't get it until next Thursday. But I didn't go in the next day to catch the bus, I had to wait until all the work would get over first, and I missed the bus and I didn't get home time enough for the funeral.

[Seminole5050]

These people are part of me and their struggle is part of mine.

[TandyARTLOVER]

"The arts can open the door to the imagination, pushing the envelope of how peace can be created. It takes courage to take this kind of risk, and courage is what we all need to create a better world."

-Wayne Shorter

[HarmonyOneLove]

I move through this day at an easy and comfortable pace.

[Lezzy2DN]

I know. She listened 2 t song again & again.

[AfricanArtFan]

The man found out how to get forclosed homes for a very cheap rate.

[HarmonyOneLove]

I am grateful for each unique expression of Great Spirit.

[HarperGleeman]

Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.

[HarmonyOneLove]

Share the flowing waters of love.

[Z2Qazo]

By encouraging youth to improve math, science, and reading skills, the sorority continued a legacy of community service and pledged to enrich the lives of others.

[Hazel4159Silver]

May God bless you with a

multitude of blessings.

[7284978301]

Happy New Year.

[HarperGleeman]

Yeah, I kno. She tryd it b hd 2 tAk it bak.

[JakEyeNEye]

MLKing, Jr. Day s fast apprOch'.

[Peace0Release]

My new years resolution is

to be more creative by getting

involved in art stuff at school.

[HarperGleeman]

Let ths nu yr b vry productive

4 urslf.

[Qarrie]

Miracles, Blessings

& Kwanzaa

throughout the year.

[Lezzy2DN]

Happy Kwanzaa.

Hotep & Imani.

[AfricanArtFan]

Happy, Happy Kwanzaa.

Cre8 a very Happy New Year

4 urslf.

[AnnahMayy]

Kwanzaa's 6th day is Creativity.

[HarmonyOneLove]

In preparation for a new year,

embrace CHANGE.

[Qarrie]

Out of the rock in the wilderness...

[AfricanArtFan]

How can we build

If we continue 2 kill

With profanity and self-hate

Its not too late

To stop the madness,

badness, sadness

And instead unite

in the fight

for right

[AfricanArtFan]

We must build and maintain our own...

[HarperGleeman]

2gthr we stand.

[TandyARTLOVER]

Its Kwanzaa... 365!

[JakEyeNEye]

Some art mediums:

-Ink

-Pastel, including dry pastels,

oil pastels, and pastel pencils

-Tempera

-Encaustic (wax)

[AfricanArtFan]

I love celebrating Kwanzaa.

[HarmonyOneLove]

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. (James Baldwin)

Teach your children about Kwanza

by example.

[Peace0Release]

Happy Kwanzaa!

Blessings of Unity.

[HarperGleeman]

Can u blEv its almost a nu yr?

[HarmonyOneLove]

Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.

[Qarrie]

Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.

(Stokely Carmichael)

[Hazel4159Silver]

Now u can go. T culprit s dead.

[HarperGleeman]

Luv ths part: I got a long wA 2 climb.

[Qarrie]

I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities.

Angela Davis

[TandyARTLOVER]

Bears. Bears who need bears.

[TandyARTLOVER]

(Wayne Shorter)

The arts can open the door to the imagination, pushing the envelope of how peace can be created. It takes courage to take this kind of risk, and courage is what we all need to create a better world.

[JakEyeNEye]

Georgia's Fraudulent Anti-Fraud Legislation — Julian Bond

November, 2005

WASHINGTON (NNPA) - What is it with some people?

Why do they persist in believing racial minorities are inveterate cheaters at the polls? What kind of racist criminal profiling takes place in their minds?

[AfricanArtFan]

Its hard 2 find stuff like tt.

[Hazel4159Silver]

Worship the true God from your heart.

[11Nov2011]

This one is really nice too. Good art.

[Xan4Xan]

I thought the topic was quite interesting.

[HarmonyOneLove]

H. G. WELLS:

History is a race between education and catastrophe.

[AfricanArtFan]

In Elizabethan times, play-going audiences were a diverse bunch. In the upper gallery, the wealthier patrons fanned themselves and looked with disdain at those who could only afford the penny admission to the pit below.

[Lezzy2DN]

E. R. B. L:

It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.

[AfricanArtFan]

We have everything you will need and even things you only want.

[Lezzy2DN]

DENG MING-DAO:

Those truly linked don't need correspondence. When they meet again after many years apart, Their friendship is as true as ever.

[Qarrie]

Wht do u think she will wear 2 t Kwanzaa party?

[Qarrie]

I am against every form of racism and segregation, every form of discrimination. I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.

Malcolm X (Jan. 1965)

[Xan4Xan]

[10u n faith.

[Peace0Release]

Thr must b some nsecurity.

[EvonneGussie]

When he said:

If you walk out that door...

We all thought he was going to say:

You will have to stay out.

[AfricanArtFan]

T yrs r zoom' past like t rOd runr.

[AfricanArtFan]

Can u blieve its almost Blk Story Month again?

[JakEyeNEye]

Long aftr t heroic fEt, t duo decidd 2 examine t ideology f their formr captors.

[JakEyeNEye]

Can u blieve tt filthy foul-mouthd devil worshipr w-s 2 plA my gAm?

[HarmonyOneLove]

AfirmA~:

I br' my gifts 2 t planet.

[Seminole5050]

I have much respect for these great leaders.

[HarmonyOneLove]

What do you think about education?

Do you feel it is needed?

[AncestralARTS]

They paved the way for others but some things they did still cannot be duplicated.

[Qarrie]

An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan.

Stokely Carmichael

[HarmonyOneLove]

MARIA MITCHELL:

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

[Qarrie]

Bumpersticker:

Warning: Dates in Calendar are closer than they appear.

[Qarrie]

Bumpersticker:

Pride is what we have. Vanity is what others have.

[DrJacoboSantiago]

It appears that most of the substances and practices that are common for Americans today are very harmful to our health and survival.

[TandyARTLOVER]

2 b cre8tive s 2 b frE.

[HarperGleeman]

28. We declare for the freedom of religious worship.

[HarperGleeman]

28. We declare for the freedom of religious worship.

[TandyARTLOVER]

Art is not just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be.

(Paul Robeson)

[AfricanArtFan]

Example Sentence:

The ambrosial and essential part of the [huckleberry] fruit is lost with the bloom which is rubbed off in the market cart, and they become mere provender.

[JakEyeNEye]

Why does the news very rarely talk about Africa?

[TandyARTLOVER]

"The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense."

-P. Picasso

[Qarrie]

Bumpersticker:

Hard work has a future payoff.

Laziness pays off NOW.

[Lezzy2DN]

WILLIAM BLAKE:

The bird, a nest-

The spider, a web-

The human, friendship.

[EvonneGussie]

The success of this major invention seems to have set up a chain reaction of research and development that has gone on ever since.

[JakEyeNEye]

Painting idioms include:

·Allegory

·Bodegon

·Botanical

·Figure painting

·llustration

[TandyARTLOVER]

One of life's great pleasures is letting go of a previously cherished idea.

-Roger von Oech

[JakEyeNEye]

Jah is my guide. I need Jah by my side.

[JakEyeNEye]

Artist of African descent:

Jerry Pinkney

Born 1939

Illustrator