“The world is full of willing people: some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.” -Robert Frost Tweet

“God made us in his own image, and he had some purpose when he thus created us; then why should we seek to destroy our identity?” -Marcus Garvey Tweet

“My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done the best that is in you. Success is being praised by others, and that’s nice, too, but not as important or satisfying. Always aim for achievement and forget about success.” […]

“Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.” -Jonathan Swift Tweet

“If you send up a weather vane or put your thumb up in the air every time you want to do something different, to find out what people are going to think about it, you’re going to limit yourself.” -Jessye Norman Tweet

“The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man’s heart away from nature becomes hard.” -Luther Standing Bear, Oglala Sioux Tweet

“If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.” -Henry […]

“A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back- but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.” -Marian Wright Edelman Tweet

“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” -Albert Einstein Tweet

“There is no future for a people who deny their past.” -Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Tweet