"If everything were perfect, you would never learn and you would never grow." - Beyonce Knowles

"We all have dreams. In order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort." - Jesse Owens

"Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you." - Oprah Winfrey

"Freedom is never given; it is won." - A. Philip Randolph

"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear." - Rosa Parks

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress." - Frederick Douglass

"To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live." - Dorothy West

"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly." - Langston Hughes

"Whatever we believe about ourselves and our ability comes true for us." - Susan L. Taylor

"The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression." - W.E.B. DuBois