Role Model

Do you live your life as if you were a role model for others? Listen to what African-American role models have to say.

Each of us, famous or infamous, is a role model for somebody, and if we aren't, we should behave as though we are?cheerful, kind, loving, courteous. Because you can be sure someone is watching and taking deliberate and diligent notes.
Maya Angelou

Each person must live their life as a model for others.
Rosa Parks

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
Maya Angelou

I make an active effort to remain a positive role model to kids. They need people to show them there's another way.
MC Hammer

I never thought a role model should be negative.
Michael Jordan

I think it's an honor to be a role model to one person or maybe more than that. If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about.
Tiger Woods

We blacks look for leadership in men and women of such youth and inexperience, as well as poverty of education and character, that it is no wonder that we sometimes seem rudderless. . . . We see basketball players and pop singers as possible role models.
Arthur Ashe

We must serve consciously as caring role models, emphasizing the ethic of service, not consumption.
Marian Wright Edelman