“The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson Tweet

“The descendants of slaves who had worked those fields and so many others throughout Mississippi and the rest of the South, denied freedom, wages, and basic human rights, had become the owners of many of those farms.” -Caron Butler Tweet

“Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.” -Ossie Davis Tweet

“Every nothing you say and do makes it just that much easier for the next incident of that nature.” -Gil Scott-Heron Tweet

“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.” -Frederick Douglass Tweet

“I never use the word ‘failure’ because failure doesn’t really exist apart from in our mind. I call it something else: ‘an unsatisfactory outcome’; or even better, ‘a stepping stone to success.’” -Bear Grylls Tweet

“When one bears in mind that slave folklore was not created to be transcribed on even to be heard by whites, one must conclude that what was eventually transcribed is probably just a small portion of that which died on the night air or continues to live, undetected by scholars, in the folk memory.” -Sterling […]

“Experts are experts because they specialize in one small part of a field. A leader’s job is to see beyond that, to see the whole picture and then to make a considered decision. The expert advice should be there to serve you: to be ‘on tap,’ when you need it, but not as your only […]