Johnnetta B. Cole Quotes

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There are not many of us African American Sister Presidents, and those of us who are in this field do not have an easy time of it. Why the story goes that one Black woman college president died and went to hell, and it was two weeks before she realized that she wasn't still on the job.

Johnnetta B. Cole
While it is true that without a vision the people perish, it is doubly true that without action the people and their vision perish as well.

Johnnetta B. Cole
If we center our lives on BMWs, RVs, VCRs, PCs and the other acronyms of consumerism, we cannot expect our children to do otherwise.

Johnnetta B. Cole
The woman who bore me is no longer alive, but I seem to be her daughter in increasingly profound ways.

Johnnetta B. Cole
The content of the curriculum should never exclude the realities of the very students who must intellectually wrestle with it. When students study all worlds except their own, they are miseducated.

Johnnetta B. Cole
The histories of the poor and the powerless are as important as those of their conquerors, their colonizers, their kings and queens.

Johnnetta B. Cole
In advocating education as the most viable means of empowerment, I mean much more than our people's ability to read and write. I mean a process of intellectual development that should last as long as there is life within us.

Johnnetta B. Cole
Although the ideologies of racism and sexism are to a great degree inherited, they are not genetic.

Johnnetta B. Cole
Soul is the ability to feel oneness with all black people.

Johnnetta B. Cole