"Neither love nor terror makes one blind; indifference makes one blind." James Baldwin AWARE celebrates the leadership and wisdom of black voices this month and every month.

"Never confuse movement with progress. Because you can run in place and not get anywhere." Denzel Washington AWARE celebrates the leadership and wisdom of black voices this month and every month.

"When we're talking about diversity, it's not a box to check. It is a reality that should be deeply felt and held and valued by all of us." Ava DuVernay AWARE celebrates the leadership and wisdom of black voices this month and every month.

"Impossible is just a word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it." Muhammad Ali AWARE celebrates the leadership and wisdom of black voices this month and every month.

“The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.” Ida B. Wells AWARE celebrates the leadership and wisdom of black voices this month and every month.

"I prefer a real villain to a false hero." Killer Mike (Michael Render) AWARE celebrates the leadership and wisdom of black voices this month and every month.

"Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated." Coretta Scott King AWARE celebrates the leadership and wisdom of black voices this month and every month.

"I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change... I'm changing the things I cannot accept." Angela Davis AWARE celebrates the leadership and wisdom of black voices this month and every month.

"True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others, at whatever cost." Arthur Ashe AWARE celebrates the leadership and wisdom of black voices this month and every month.

"The most realistic approach to solidarity is one that assumes that sometimes it simply isn't your turn to be the focus of the conversation." Mikki Kendall AWARE celebrates the leadership and wisdom of black voices this month and every month.

"The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned." Maya Angelou AWARE celebrates the leadership and wisdom of black voices this month and every month.

"My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together." Demond Tutu AWARE celebrates the leadership and wisdom of black voices this month and every month.

"How can you ask someone to live in the world, to exist in the world, and not have something to say about injustice?" John Carlos AWARE celebrates the leadership and wisdom of black voices this month and every month.

"... the problem of the twenty-first century is the problem of colorblindness, the refusal to acknolwedge the causes and consequences of enduring racial stratification." Naomi Murakawa AWARE celebrates the leadership and wisdom of black voices this month and every month.

"If you stick a knife in my back 9 inches and pull it out 6 inches, that's not progress. If you pull it all the way out, that's not progress. The progress comes from healing the wound that the blow made. [...] They won't even admit the knife is there." Malcolm X

“Loving ourselves and each other deepens our disruption of the dominant systems. They want us unwell, fearful, exhausted, and without deep self-love because you are easier to manipulate when you are distracted by what is not real or true.” Tricia Hersey

"If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it." John Lewis AWARE celebrates the leadership and wisdom of black voices this month and every month.

"Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined." Toni Morrison AWARE celebrates the leadership and wisdom of black voices this month and every month.

"Wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it. Right is right even if no one is doing it." Ice T ICE T AWARE celebrates the leadership and wisdom of black voices this month and every month.

"Your willingness to look at your darkness is what empowers you to change." Iyanla Vanzant AWARE celebrates the leadership and wisdom of black voices this month and every month.