"When life knocks you down, land on your back because if you can look up you can get up!" Les Brown

Tuskegee Mardi Gras was off the chain!!

"We all do 'Do Re Me' but you have got to find the other notes yourself." -Louis Armstrong

"Don't wish for someone else to do later what you can do now." -Wynton Marsalis

Could be bitter,but dont feel like being bitter. Being bitter makes you immobile,& there's too much that I still want to do.-Richard Pryor

"If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it." -Michael Jordan

"Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done." -Frederick Douglass

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"As you become clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around." -Oprah Winfrey

"The future belongs to those who prepare for it today." -Malcolm X

"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses." -George Washington Carver

"Every great dream,you have within you the strength, the patience, & the passion to reach for the stars to change the world."Harriet Tubman

"I've learned over the years that when a mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear." -Rosa Parks

"If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress." -Barack Obama

"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I'd be frightened by not using any abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination & laziness." -Denzel Washington

"The secret of life is to have no fear; it's the only way to function." -Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael)

"I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go." -Langston Hughes

"Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome." -Arthur Ashe

"All great achievements require time." -Maya Angelou

"Let us banish fear." -Dr. Carter G. Woodson

"Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, creativity, or curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life." -Dr. Mae Jemison

“It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.” -Whitney M. Young, Jr.