Positivity

Bank on positivity to pick you up from a slump. See how positivity changed these African-Americans' lives for the better.

A lot of times, we censor ourselves before the censor even gets there.
Spike Lee

A lot of times, we censor ourselves before the censor even gets there.
Spike Lee

Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.
Michael Jordan

Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.
Michael Jordan

As I give, I get.
Mary McLeod Bethune

As I give, I get.
Mary McLeod Bethune

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it.
Maya Angelou

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it.
Maya Angelou

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
Booker T. Washington

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
Booker T. Washington

Don't bring negative to my door.
Maya Angelou

Don't bring negative to my door.
Maya Angelou

Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.
Jesse Jackson

Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville.
Jesse Jackson

I believe that you should put the right people around you, people that will not let anything go wrong.
Carmelo Anthony

I believe that you should put the right people around you, people that will not let anything go wrong.
Carmelo Anthony

I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day, but I don't think there is anything such as complete happiness. It pains me that there is still a lot of Klan activity and racism. I think when you say you're happy, you have everything that you need and everything that you want, and nothing more to wish for. I haven't reached that stage yet.
Rosa Parks

I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day, but I don't think there is anything such as complete happiness. It pains me that there is still a lot of Klan activity and racism. I think when you say you're happy, you have everything that you need and everything that you want, and nothing more to wish for. I haven't reached that stage yet.
Rosa Parks

I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
Booker T. Washington

I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
Booker T. Washington

I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.
Michael Jordan

I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.
Michael Jordan

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.
Booker T. Washington

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.
Booker T. Washington

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
Booker T. Washington

I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
Booker T. Washington

If I thought of the number of people who were watching me as I got ready to shoot, I?d miss it.
Michael Jordan

If I thought of the number of people who were watching me as I got ready to shoot, I?d miss it.
Michael Jordan

If you don't ask, you don't get.
Stevie Wonder

If you don't ask, you don't get.
Stevie Wonder

No one can degrade us except ourselves.
Booker T. Washington

No one can degrade us except ourselves.
Booker T. Washington

No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.
Marian Wright Edelman

No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.
Marian Wright Edelman

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
Oprah Winfrey

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
Oprah Winfrey

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
Booker T. Washington

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.
Booker T. Washington