Inspirations - Tue., Mar. 1, 2016

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

Maya Angelou

Inspirations - Mon., Feb. 29, 2016

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

Wilma Rudolph, U.S. track and field athlete

Inspirations - Fri., Feb. 26, 2016

One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.

Barbara Jordan
Lawyer, Educator, Civil Rights Activist
U.S. Congressional Representative from Texas, Civil Rights Activist

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Inspirations - Thur., Feb. 25, 2016

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

Maya Angelou

Black History Program - Sat., Feb. 27, 2016

Black History Program - Saturday February 27 at 3:00 pm. Guests include Psalmist Tonya R. Godwin-Baines, Twinsburg Gospel Choir, Praise Dancers, motivational speaker Mr. Kent Wise and more!
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Inspirations - Wed., Feb. 24, 2016

The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.

Eldridge Cleaver
American Writer, Political Activist
Early leader of the Black Panther Party

Inspirations - Tue., Feb. 23, 2016

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

Langston Hughes

Inspirations - Mon., Feb. 22, 2016

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself--the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us--that's where it's at.

Jesse Owens, U.S. track and field athlete

Inspirations - Fri., Feb. 19, 2016

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

Oprah Winfrey

Inspirations - Thur., Feb. 18, 2016

Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living.

Mary McLeod Bethune - 1875-1955
A leading educator and civil rights activist. She grew up in poverty, as one of 17 children born to former slaves.

Inspirations - Wed., Feb. 17, 2016

I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

Former NBA Player
Member of the Basketball Hall of Fame
Businessman

Inspirations - Tue., Feb. 16, 2016

In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.

Thurgood Marshall
1st African American on the U.S. Supreme Court

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Inspirations - Mon., Feb. 15, 2016

If your reality is as large as your dream, your dream is smaller than your possibilities.

Henry Ford
Author - Speaker - Consultant - Publisher

Inspirations - Fri., Feb. 12, 2016

One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.

Franklin Thomas
Author

Inspirations - Thur., Feb. 11, 2016

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

Colin Powell
Son of Jamaican Immigrants
Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Former Secretary of State

Inspirations - Wed., Feb. 10, 2016

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

President Barack Obama

Inspirations - Tue., Feb. 9, 2016

If you are called to be a leader you must leave the comfort of the crowd. It may be more comfortable to blend in, but the conviction of your calling demands that you STAND OUT!

Danita Harris
Television News Anchor

Inspirations - Mon., Feb. 8, 2016

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

Wilma Rudolph
1st 3-Time Olympic Gold Medal Winner

Inspirations - Fri., Feb. 5, 2016

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

Coretta Scott King (1927-2006) 

Civil Rights Activist

Inspirations - Thur., Feb. 4, 2016

We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. 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.

Carter G. Woodson - Historian

Inspirations - Wed., Feb. 3,2016

Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations.

Dr. Mae Jemison, first African American female astronaut

Inspirations - Tue., Feb. 2, 2016

There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.

Ernest J. Gaines

Ernest James Gaines is an African-American author whose works have been taught in college classrooms and translated into many languages, including French, Spanish, German, Russian and Chinese. Four of his works have been made into television movies.