Learning while Black: With a new purpose

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

With a new purpose

This is the beginning, the dawn of a new year. I have a new outlook. Those who have tried will no longer win, those who haven't will have no opportunity to do so. This is the beginning of the end of the dawning of a new day. 2nd year...if I made it through the first, I can make it through this. I will sell my soul for this dreaded sheet of paper that validates my words and makes me relevant to academia. That's the nature of this beast that is controlled by the beasts that refuse to see me and you for who we are. Cheers to a new dawning

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Pearls of wisdom

People who don't know when they were emancipated, and if they were emancipated, are never going to be emancipated--Lerone Bennett
Our young people deserve a future and I consider it the mandate of my ancestors to be part of the struggle to insure that they have one.--Assata Shakur(1998)
Excuses are futile when you have goals--Ms Educated
Touch the sky and tell it to reach for heaven--Ms. Educated
If all you've learned, at the end of the day, is what you've heard in a classroom, then you've limited your learning to all someone else knows! Read, research, reclaim your right to know--Ms. Educated
"Students are perfectly capable, you just have to demand their best. Initially, they might fight you, but once they discover that you are as determined as they are, they appreciate the fact that you won't give up on them."--Leroy Lovelace
I am not my hair, I am not this skin, I am not your expectations--India.Arie
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent--Eleanor Roosevelt
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”--Marianne Williamson
"To be good is not enough if your dream is to be great"
Your dream ignites a flame, your passion keeps it burning--Ms. Educated