How To Celebrate Black History Month

Get Inspired 

During this Black History Month, we want to share inspiring words from women that have deeply influenced culture and politics across all spaces. We invite you to learn more about them and their stories. 

 

Ketanji  Brown Jackson

‘I want to encourage these bold dreamers not to be turned aside by adversity, because life will always present challenges. We must allow them to teach and fortify us, and help us build confidence in our ability to find a way through.’ Learn more about her. 

 

Katherine Johnson 

‘I Like to learn. That’s an art and a science.’ Learn more about her. 

 

bell hooks 

‘If any female feels she needs anything beyond herself to legitimate and validate her existence, she is already giving away her power to be self-defining, her agency.’ Learn more about her.

 

Nina Simone 

‘I'm a real rebel with a cause.’Learn more about her. 

 

Viola Desmond

‘Do your little bit of good where you are. It’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world’. Learn more about her. 

 

Bessie Coleman 

‘The true worth of a race must be measured by the character of its womanhood.’ Learn more about her. 

Shirley Chisholm 

‘Women must become revolutionary. This cannot be evolution but revolution.’ Learn more about her.

 

Zora Neale Hurston 

‘Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.’ Learn more about her.