Quotes N Notes
-
The Day You Give Up
“The day you give up the fight is the day you have lost the battle.” Continue reading
-
Disappointments
Like Decembers steal color from the trees…like the sky when it erases the sun and we are left to do without the light…like life …wrapped and stuffed into bottles of deception…like whitewashed hopes and American nightmares… Continue reading
-
Struggle
“We must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its own way, establishing its own identity, insisting on it at all cost, against all resistance.” – Rainer Maria Rilke What I love most about this quote is that struggle is such a powerful teacher. It passes… Continue reading
-
Spoken Words for Silent Wars
I speak for the people in places where hope hangs its strings in the crack filled streets of Harlem where iron style floors and bronze heavens are polluted with “I told you so’s” morgues loitered with toy soldiers who died believing defending a street corner was keeping it real Continue reading
-
“Don’t be stupid”
I have one simple message for you today: “Don’t be stupid”. What I mean is, don’t be foolish. Some of us are so “overtly intelligent” that we are unable to appreciate the little things, and the simplest of manners shoot past us like a bullet. We may know the intimate details of Pythagorean’s Theorem, but… Continue reading
-
The Mis-Education of the Negro
“When you control a man’s thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will find his “proper place” and will stay in it. You do not need to send him to the back door; he will cut one… Continue reading
-
The Innocence of Children
“Wish I could capture your laughter in a bottle, and breathe in its beauty when I’m out of breath.” Continue reading
The PBS Blog 