“The following six exercises will help you feel noticeably more powerful in the face of your fears: 1) List all the payoffs you get from staying stuck in some aspect of your life. What don’t you have to face? What don’t you have to face? What comfort do you get? What image do you get […]
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Book Excerpt Of The Week: Part 2- “The Big Picture” By: Ben Carson
“Everyone has priorities. If we fail to establish our own, someone else- or circumstances- certainly will. And it is a lot easier to establish them and to maintain them when we found our priorities upon strong underlying principles.” -From, “The Big Picture” By: Ben Carson Tweet
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“That’s what Solomon meant when he said, ‘Gold is nice, silver is nice, rubies are nice. But to be treasured far above all those things are knowledge, wisdom, and understanding.’ Because with knowledge, wisdom, and understanding you can get all the gold, silver, and rubies you want. But more importantly, you come to realize that […]
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“In 1831, when Nat Turner and others had sought to throw of their bondage, their effort was called an insurrection. When Frederick Douglass liberated himself from the same miserable system he was declared a fugitive. When Rosa Parks refused to give her bus seat and her dignity, she was deemed a public threat. When Malcolm […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Excerpt Of The Week: “All God’s Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence.” By: Fox Butterfield
“With the legal system in the hands of whites, the distinction between law an lawlessness became so fuzzy as to be meaningless to many African-Americans. B.O. Townsend noticed this as early as 1877. ‘So often were the slaves whipped and humiliated before each other, often for no cause, that punishment came to be looked on […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Excerpt Of The Week, “Protectors Of Privilege” By: Frank Donner
“The surveillance program was conducted without guidelines of any kind; the range of targets was extraordinary. As Herlihy [a former police inspector] further testified, all dissident activities involving public issues were considered a proper subject of police interest: ‘I just can’t say what we weren’t interested in.’ Another functionary, Captain George R. Suter, head of […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Excerpt Of The Week: “Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome” By: Dr. Joy Leary
“Rather than crush self-esteem, we must do everything in our power to build it. Rather than be torn down by the anger that is present within us, we must be able to create and maintain a state of inner well being. Rather than allowing our children to be socialized by a racist society, we must […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Excerpt Of The Week, “The Assault On Reason” By: Al Gore
Here’s Al Gore’s take on the Hurricane Katrina tragedy: “The one event in recent years that probably did more than anything else to convince Americans to look differently at the climate crisis was the catastrophic damage inflicted by Hurricane Katrina. As we all watched the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina unfold, we all had a lot […]
Read the rest of this entry »BOOK EXCERPT OF THE WEEK: From, “Acts Of Faith” By: Iyanla Vanzant
“If you are waiting for something to happen before you begin what you want to do, it will never happen. If you are waiting to get something before you do what you say you want to do, you’ll never get started. If you are waiting for the right time, the right person, the right circumstances, […]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Excerpt Of The Week: “Soul Stories” By: Gary Zukav
“An intention is not a wish. A wish doesn’t cause anything to happen. An intention pushes against the way things are in your life. Those things push back exactly the same way. (Remember, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction). You can see what your intentions are by looking at what is […]
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