Being black does not stop you. You can sit out in the world and say, Well, white people kept me back, and I can't do this. Not so. You can have anything you want if you make up your mind and you want it.
Source: In Words of Women Quotations for Success, by Power Dynamics Publishing, 1997.
-- Clara McBride Hale, (Apr 1 1905-1992), US social reformer; Mother Hale founded Hale House, 1969 in Harlem to care for babies born to drug-addicted mothers; received Living Legacy Award, 1986.