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Don’t Psych Yourself Out!
The Mountain Sometimes we focus on the mountain. We become fixated on the seemingly insurmountable obstacle we would never even dream of overcoming. Ironically, it’s the self-defeating language we speak to our inner selves that leads to poor imagination. We predetermine we are not able to do, to conquer, to overcome what is before us then we lay down and play dead… or put our heads in the dirt… or crawl into caves for extended hibernations. Alternatively, we can choose to simply look at the mountain for what it is: something that has multiple sides and levels. There is always a way up, over, around, under and through it. Be…
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Harvest Update – Book Release – Desert of Solitude
“This book is a must read. Desert of Solitude really helped me understand some things in life that I struggled with. It's very refreshing to see someone overcome so many obstacles I've struggled with. Thank you, sincerely.”
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Segregation – The Neighbor That Won’t Leave
Affluent and Black, and Still Trapped by Segregation – New York Times front page on Sunday, August 21, 2016. Read it here: http://nyti.ms/2bvF9m5
- Black people in America, equality, Joint Action Plan: Brazil and USA, mercy, self-determination, unity
A lesson on class and leadership from First Lady Michelle Obama
"Family motto: "When they go low; we go high."
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Quote: Two powers in the world…
“There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.” ― Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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Quote: All mortals are equal…
Les mortels sont égaux; ce n’est pas la naissance, C’est la seule vertu qui fait la différence. All mortals are equal; it is not their birth, But virtue itself that makes the difference. Voltaire, Eriphile, act II, scene I (1732); these lines were also used in Mahomet, act I, scene IV (1741)
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Quote: Man is free…
L’homme est libre au moment qu’il veut l’être. Man is free at the instant he wants to be. Voltaire, Brutus, act II, scene I (1730)
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Quote: If you want good laws…
Voulez-vous avoir de bonnes lois; brûlez les vôtres, et faites-en de nouvelles. If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones. ~ Voltaire, Laws (1765)
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Google in My Afrocentric Life
Doodle 4 Google 2016 National Winner: Google in My Afrocentric Life Akilah Johnson, Eastern Senior High School, Washington, D.C. My Afrocentric Google is drawn as a box braid, with my personal characteristics surrounding it. I based this picture off my lifestyle and what has made me into what I am today. View the Contest Gallery: https://www.google.com/doodle4google/gallery.html Now in it’s 8th year, the Doodle 4 Google Competition challenges young artists to create their own Doodle. This year’s competition called for submissions around the theme: “What Makes Me… Me.” Kids worked in their medium of choice, delivering uniquely personal and one-of-a-kind submissions. Of 100,000 participants coming from all 50 states, Puerto Rico, Guam…
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Quote: That man who is forced each day to snatch his manhood…
That man who is forced each day to snatch his manhood, his identity, out of the fire of human cruelty that rages to destroy it knows, if he survives his effort, and even if he does not survive it, something about himself and human life that no school on earth - and, indeed, no church - can teach. He achieves his own authority, and that is unshakable. {Click to read full quote.}
