If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others.—Michelle Obama, from Becoming
Quote of the week: Week of June 8, 2020
If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others.—Michelle Obama, from Becoming
Until white people understand that racism is embedded in everything, including our consciousness and socialisation, then we cannot go forward.—Robin DiAngelo
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It is for you to protect others. So if two people wear masks, I’m protecting you and you’re protecting me.—Dr. Theresa Tam, Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer
So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
—Florence Nightingale
God put a rainbow in the clouds.—Maya Angelou
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.—Anne Lamott
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
—Harriet Beecher Stowe
No matter what happens or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.—Maya Angelou
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.—Lao Tzu
I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it.—Maya Angelou