Kwanzaa Quotes
The best sayings about Kwanzaa that you can share on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and other social networks!
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Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
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Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
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You only need a heart full of grace
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The seven principles of Kwanzaa - unity, self-determinat ion, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith -- teach us that when we come together to strengthen our families and communities and honor the lesson of the past, we can face the future with joy and optimism.
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I say 'Merry Christmas' to people I don't know, or to people I know are Christians. I say 'Happy Hanukkah' to people I know to be or suspect to be Jewish. And I don't say 'Happy Kwanzaa,' because I think African Americans get enough insults all year round.
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Do what you do. This Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year's Eve, Twelfth Night, Valentine's Day, Mardi Gras, St. Paddy's Day, and every day henceforth. Just do what you do. Live out your life and your traditions on your own terms. If it offends others, so be it. That's their problem.
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A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.
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I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.
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Ron Karenga wrote a book back in 1968, and in that book, he said that the reason, part of his motivation for starting Kwanzaa was because he felt that Christianity was the white man religion, and he didn't like Jews, and so he made up this lie. And he called it an African holiday because he was concerned that if he didn't call it an African holiday, that black Americans would not participate in it.
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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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My white girl Veronica, black girl Monica, Got me celebrating Christma-Hanu-Kwanzaa-kah, Rocking dashikis with a yarmulke.
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So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.
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Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.
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One is a member of a country, a profession, a civilization, a religion. One is not just a man.
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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.
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Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.
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Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future.
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The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.
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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.
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If you have a purpose in which you can believe, there's no end to the amount of things you can accomplish.
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Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
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Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
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A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.
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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.
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Brad got me this great thing for Christmas. It's a bookshelf that has a book on every religion. That's how we plan to raise our kids. Teach them about all religions. They can pick one or be a student of all of them. We'll celebrate Kwanzaa for our girl. We'll celebrate moon and water festivals for our boys. We'll take them to temples in certain countries. Also to church.
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Many Americans celebrate both Christmas and Xmas. Others celebrate one or the other. And some of us celebrate holidays that, although unconnected with the [winter] solstice, occur near it: Ramadan, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa.
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Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
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Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. [...] You only need a heart full of grace.
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We don't accomplish anything in this world alone.
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