“I started teaching myself to contort my rage into more valuable shapes; it doesn't disappear that way, just works for you instead of against you.”
"We were not actors but acted upon. We were not contributors, just recipients. White people enslaved us, and white people freed us. Black people could choose either to take advantage of that freedom or to squander it, as our depictions in the media seemed to suggest so many of us were doing."
- Nikole Hannah-Jones
Awareness
"If we are truly a great nation, the truth cannot destroy us."
- Nikole Hannah-Jones
Faith
"The price of equality, or at least of the promise of an equal society, is vigilance against those who would make government the tool of hierarchy."
- Nikole Hannah-Jones
Responsibility
"True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline."
- Mortimer J. Adler
Self-improvement
"You will never always be motivated. You have to learn to be disciplined."
- Anon
Self-improvement
"Do not think about other things, there is only one thing you can do. So master that one thing. Do not forget. What you must imagine is always that you, yourself, are the strongest. You do not need outside enemies. For you, the one you have to fight is none other than your own image."
- Archer
Self-improvement
"You need to accept the fact that you’re not the best and have all the will to strive to be better than anyone you face."
- Roronoa Zoro
Self-improvement
"Take a page from the dragonfly's book – be vibrant and let your true colors shine"
Self-improvement