Wall of Fame! Quotes from famous Black and Asian people

Quotations can be inspirational - and make a real difference to individuals at a personal level.
We are compiling a "Wall of Quotes" which you can use at school - to match quotes to people. We would like you to contribute your favourite quotes to add to this during the month of October. Participating schools will receive a complimentary Race Equality resource to acknowledge their contribution to the website.

To start you off - here are 10 quotes from Black and Asian figures - past and present.

With thanks to Haltia Watkins, EMAS, for her research on this!

Click on the image to the left to read the 10 quotations.

View the authors of the quotations here.

Some suggestions for using this resource in schools:

• (Primary) Create a display in a central area in school: print out and laminate the quotes, and authors. Put up display of quotes - and put authors in tray, with blu tak, for pupils to add to the person they think said this.

• (KS3) Use in a History or PSHE lesson (45 mins - 1 hour) : Class competition. Pupils work in pairs/groups: Use internet to research quotes - and match to people. (Extension: pupils could research further, to find the context in which the quote was originallly made; discuss whether they think it is important to know a quote's context.)

• (KS3) Extended project: pupils match quotes, and then produce biography, & find image of personality on internet, and produce school display.

•  (KS2/3) Extension work: Pupils work on above, and then think about a quotation that has influenced them personally - this could be a famous quote, or equally, something someone they are close to has said to them (for example, a friend of mine said her father told her, when young: "You can do anything you want to do - be anything you want to be - but you will have to work to attain it!") Students produce a piece of work - writing, poem, art, to illustrate the influence of a quotation on them personally.

• (All Key Stages) Do you have a real wall in school that could be brightened up? Why not create a real 'Wall of Quotes' to inspire students? This could be temporary, using chalks ... or permanent, using paint, or other media.