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How fortunate we are to learn from others. Here are valuable wisdom quotes made by well-respected African-Americans.
A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.
Bill Cosby
Always be smarter than the people who hire you.
Lena Horne
Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power.
Barbara Jordan
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
Oprah Winfrey
I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.
Tina Turner
If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.
Stanley Crouch,
Stanley Crouch Interview
It is the mind that makes the body.
Sojourner Truth
Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.
Mary McLeod Bethune,
Last Will & Testament of Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune
Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back.
Zora Neale Hurston
Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men.
Marcus Garvey
Minds ripen at very different ages.
Stevie Wonder
Muffle your rage. Get smart instead of muscular.
Roy Wilkins
Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again.
Zora Neale Hurston
Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
Audre Lorde
People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
Alice Walker
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
Maya Angelou
There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.
Pearl Bailey
There's no rehab for stupidity.
Chris Rock
This country can ill afford to continue to function using less than half of its human resources, brain power, and kinetic energy.
Barbara Jordan
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
Oprah Winfrey
Your mind is what makes everything else work.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar