“You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable.”
"Black people love their children with a kind of obsession. You are all we have, and you come to us endangered."
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
Love
"I propose to take our countrymen’s claims of American exceptionalism seriously, which is to say I propose subjecting our country to an exceptional moral standard."
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
Morality
"I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free."
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
Liberation
"Beauty is not about physical perfection, but about authenticity and confidence."
- Beauty and the Beast
Self-awareness
"Beauty is found in the unique qualities that make us who we are."
- Beauty and the Beast
Self-awareness
"I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific."
- Lily Tomlin
Self-awareness
"Make sure your worst enemy doesn’t live between your own two ears."
- Laird Hamilton
Self-awareness
"True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less."
Self-awareness