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Johnnetta Cole Quotes

b. 1936

Johnnetta Cole (born October 19, 1936) is an American anthropologist, educator, museum director, and college president. Cole was the first female African-American president of Spelman College, a historically black college, serving from 1987 to 1997.

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If you have been blessed with a great deal, then you have a lot of giving to do.

What you give ought to be in direct relationship to what you’ve received.

But even we couldn’t do it in the light of day.

I don’t want a new dress. If I can’t try it on in the light of day, I want to stop having to try it on in the darkness of night.

Because of who my family was, we were given this privilege that we were allowed to even try on the dresses.

There’s an African saying that speaks to the power of one person to make a difference. It says if you believe one creature cannot make a difference, you have never spent the night in a closed room with a mosquito.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Johnnetta Cole (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.