“Knowing your generational story firms the ground upon which you stand. It makes your life, your struggles and triumphs, bigger than your lone existence. It connects you to a grand plotline.”
"To be seen in this life, truly observed without judgment, is what it feels like to be loved."
- Cicely Tyson
Love
"Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew."
- Cicely Tyson
Personal Growth
"All of the challenges will make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew."
- Cicely Tyson
Personal Growth
"I have learned not to allow rejection to move me."
- Cicely Tyson
Resilience
"Just walking through this life as a Black person, and actually surviving that, was and still is an ovation-worthy performance."
- Cicely Tyson
Resilience
"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."
- Leonardo DaVinci
Inspiration
"Man must rise above the Earth—to the top of the atmosphere and beyond—for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives."
- Socrates
Inspiration
"The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who, in their grueling travels across trackless lands in prehistoric times, looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space, at full speed, above all obstacles, on the infinite highway of the air."
- Wilbur Wright
Inspiration
"Sometimes, flying feels too God-like to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see."
- Charles A. Lindbergh
Inspiration
"I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Inspiration