Kwanzaa Quotes

We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.

If you have a purpose in which you can believe, there's no end to the amount of things you can accomplish.

We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.

Unity, to be real, must stand the severest strain without breaking.

I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

We don't accomplish anything in this world alone.

The [Kwanzaa] holiday, then will of necessity, be engaged as an ancient and living cultural tradition which reflects the best of African thought and practice in its reaffirmation of the dignity of the human person in community and culture, the well-being of family and community, the integrity of the environment and our kinship with it, and the rich resource and meaning of a people's culture.

Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future.

Each of us is a being in himself and a being in society, each of us needs to understand himself and understand others, take care of others and be taken care of himself.

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.

We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it.

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.

One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.

My white girl Veronica, black girl Monica, Got me celebrating Christma-Hanu-Kwanzaa-kah, Rocking dashikis with a yarmulke.

I was very disappointed, very disappointed when President [George W.] Bush proclaimed Kwanzaa as a national holiday. Prior to that, Bill Clinton did the same thing.