Johnnetta Betsch Cole (b.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. She was president of Bennett College from 2002 to 2007. During 2009–2017 she was Director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African Art.
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Show me someone content with mediocrity and I’ll show you someone destined for failure.
—Johnnetta B. Cole
Topics: Future, Failure
You cannot fully understand your own life without knowing and thinking beyond your life, your own neighborhood, and even your own nation.
—Johnnetta B. Cole
Topics: Self-Discovery
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