Welcome to the Twenty-Third Edition of "BellaOnline Quotations Zine." This free bi-monthly newsletter features new quotations, related news, links to helpful resources for QuoteLovers online, and much more.

"You lose a lot of time, hating people."
-- Marian Anderson

"I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people."
-- Maya Angelou

"The only thing that white people have that black people need, or should want, is power -- and no one holds power forever."
-- James Baldwin

"When our thoughts -- which bring actions -- are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white, we are in a living hell. That is as real as hell will ever be."
-- George Washington Carver

"Pride, like humility, is destroyed by one's insistence that he possess it."
-- Kenneth B. Clarke

"Truth knows no color; it appeals to intelligence."
-- James Cone

"Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy."
-- Bill Cosby

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."
-- Frederick Douglass

"Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for."
-- Marian Wright Edelman

"Our only hope is to control the vote."
-- Medgar Evers

"It isn't where you came from, its where you're going that counts."
-- Ella Fitzgerald

"Question everything. Every stripe, every star, every word spoken. Everything."
-- Ernest J. Gaines

"We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to wallow in that or are you going to create your own agenda?"
-- Judith Jamison

"Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people."
-- Coretta Scott King

"I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up."
-- Rosa Parks

"Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred."
-- Booker T. Washington

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"You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom."
-- Malcolm X

"A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything."
-- Malcolm X

"If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary."
-- Malcolm X

"I am not a racist. 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

"The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows."
-- George William Curtis

"For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning."
-- T.S. Eliot

"Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true."
-- Lord Tennyson

"An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves."
-- Bill Vaughan