Carter G. Woodson

In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.

The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies.

The mere imparting of information is not education.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

The weird thing about grief, for me at least, was when each of my parents died, for a year or two afterwards I was pretty wildly brave - just willing to take life on.