Jeremy Smith

“No man knows what he can do until he tries.”
― Carter Godwin Woodson, The Mis-Education of the Negro

“It may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing, and fools of what they expect to do. The Negro race has a rather large share of the last mentioned class.”
― Carter Godwin Woodson, The Mis-Education of the Negro

“As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.”
― Carter Woodson, The Mis-Education of the Negro

“You must first be a king of your own personal kingdom. If you can't lead that kingdom on your own two feet, you can't lead a bigger kingdom”
― Na'im Akbar