Bebe Moore Campbell famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

As I grow older part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me.
-- Bebe Moore Campbell

#Inspiration #Emotional #Waiting
Once my loved one accepted the diagnosis, healing began for the entire family, but it took too long. It took years. Can't we, as a nation, begin to speed up that process? We need a national campaign to destigmatize mental illness, especially one targeted toward African Americans. The message must go on billboards and in radio and TV public service announcements. It must be preached from pulpits and discussed in community forums. It's not shameful to have a mental illness. Get treatment. Recovery is possible.
-- Bebe Moore Campbell

#Healing #Recovery #Years
African Americans know about racism, but I don't think we really know the causes. I decided it's first of all a family problem.
-- Bebe Moore Campbell

#Thinking #Racism #African American
Knowing who you are begins in the mind.
-- Bebe Moore Campbell

#Knowing Who You Are #Knowing #Mind
The music was as much a gift as sunshine, as rain, as any blessing ever prayed for.
-- Bebe Moore Campbell

#Music #Rain #Sunshine
When we finally stop asking America to love us and begin to love ourselves, we will prosper as a people.
-- Bebe Moore Campbell

#America #People #Asking
You live your life between your ears.
-- Bebe Moore Campbell

#Live Your Life #Ears
Discipline is the servant of inspiration.
-- Bebe Moore Campbell

#Inspiration #Discipline #Servant
People of color, particularly African Americans, feel the stigma more keenly. In a race-conscious society, some don't want to be perceived as having yet another deficit.
-- Bebe Moore Campbell

#Race #Color #People
Race, redemption and healing - thats my thing.
-- Bebe Moore Campbell

#Healing #Race #Redemption
Forgiveness is the key to the recovery of the soul.
-- Bebe Moore Campbell

#Recovery #Keys #Soul
My color is my joy and not my burden...
-- Bebe Moore Campbell

#Color #Joy #Burden

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