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Identity
“If you don’t define yourself for yourself, you’d be crunched into other people’s fantasies of you and eaten alive.” – Audre Lorde Continue reading
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Money and Power
“Never work just for money or for power. They won’t save your soul or help you sleep at night.” – Edelman, Marian Wright, Children’s Defense Fund (1939- ) Continue reading
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Act On It
“The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others”. ~Author Unknown Continue reading
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The Bright Side
“As long as you’re looking on the bright side of things you’ll be ignoring the not-so-good things in your life. What you give attention to grows, so if you’re focusing on what’s wrong in your life you’ll just get more of it to focus on. But if you focus on what’s right in your life,… Continue reading
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No Smooth Roads
“Life has no smooth road for any of us; and in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim the very roughness stimulates the climber to steadier steps, till the legend, over steep ways to the stars, fulfills itself.” – W. C. Doane Continue reading
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How
“How do you tell a black woman, raising a son isn’t some type of inside joke …snickering at the soul of a single parent mother, dressing her son for graduation hoping he can make it across the stage, down the aisles or off the balcony quick enough to not be caught in his skin at… Continue reading
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