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  • #1
    Confucius
    “Study the past if you would define the future.”
    ― Confucius
    tags: direction, future, history, learning, moving-forward, past, strategy
    1467 likes

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  • #2
    Alvin Toffler
    “You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.”
    ― Alvin Toffler
    tags: inspirational, strategy
    226 likes

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  • #3
    Michael E. Porter
    “The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.”
    ― Michael Porter, What Is Strategy?
    tags: strategy
    123 likes

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  • #4
    Nancy Pelosi
    “Organize, don't agonize.”
    ― Nancy Pelosi
    tags: agony, organization, preparation, strategy
    61 likes

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  • #5
    Rahul Guhathakurta
    “To be on the same page, we need to be in the same book.”
    ― Rahul Guhathakurta
    tags: conflict-management, conflict-resolution, negotiation, negotiations, strategy, strategy-execution, strategy-management
    10 likes

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  • #6
    Ogwo David Emenike
    “Synergy without strategy results to waste of energy.”
    ― Ogwo David Emenike
    tags: business, collaboration, cooperation, energy, marketing, plan, strategy, synergy, team-spirit, teamwork
    3 likes

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  • #8
    Angie Thomas
    “What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be?”
    ― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give
    tags: black-lives-matter, racism
    1673 likes

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  • #9
    Angie Thomas
    “At an early age I learned that people make mistakes, and you have to decide if their mistakes are bigger than your love for them.”
    ― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give
    tags: mistakes
    1305 likes

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  • #10
    Angie Thomas
    “That's the problem. We let people say stuff, and they say it so much that it becomes okay to them and normal for us. What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be?”
    ― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give
    668 likes

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  • #11
    Angie Thomas
    “Brave doesn't mean you're not scared. It means you go on even though you're scared.”
    ― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give
    tags: bravery, fear, overcoming, persistence
    1228 likes

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  • #12
    Angie Thomas
    “I can't change where I come from or what I've been through, so why should I be ashamed of what makes me, me?”
    ― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give
    tags: racism-prejudice
    550 likes

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  • #13
    Angie Thomas
    “Once upon a time there was a hazel-eyed boy with dimples. I called him Khalil. The world called him a thug.
    He lived, but not nearly long enough, and for the rest of my life I'll remember how he died.
    Fairy tale? No. But I'm not giving up on a better ending.”
    ― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give
    367 likes

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  • #14
    Angie Thomas
    “It's dope to be black until it's hard to be black.”
    ― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give
    331 likes

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  • #15
    Angie Thomas
    “You can destroy wood and brick, but you can't destroy a movement.”
    ― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give
    tags: racism-prejudice
    369 likes

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  • #16
    Angie Thomas
    “Pac said Thug Life stood for 'The Hate U Give Little Infants Fucks Everybody'.”
    ― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give
    tags: inspirational, thug-life, tupac
    350 likes

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  • #17
    Angie Thomas
    “I've seen it happen over and over again: a black person gets killed just for being black, and all hell breaks loose. I’ve tweeted RIP hashtags, reblogged pictures on Tumblr, and signed every petition out there. I always said that if I saw it happen to somebody, I would have the loudest voice, making sure the world knew what went down.

    Now I am that person, and I’m too afraid to speak.”
    ― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give
    tags: african-americans, blacklivesmatter, blacks, fear, police, police-brutality, race, social-media, speaking-up
    263 likes

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  • #18
    Angie Thomas
    “My son loved working in the neighborhood," One-Fifteen's father claims. "He always wanted to make a difference in the lives there."

    Funny. Slave masters thought they were making a difference in black people’s lives too. Saving them from their “wild African ways.” Same shit, different century. I wish people like them would stop thinking that people like me need saving.”
    ― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give
    tags: african-americans, blacks, making-a-difference, police, police-brutality, slavery
    194 likes

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  • #19
    Angie Thomas
    “Intentions always look better on paper than in reality.”
    ― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give
    271 likes

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  • #20
    Angie Thomas
    “Once you've seen how broken someone is it's like seeing them naked—you can't look at them the same anymore.”
    ― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give
    tags: brokenness, honesty, openness, pain, perceptions, transparency
    375 likes

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  • #21
    Angie Thomas
    “People say misery loves company, but I think it’s like that with anger too.”
    ― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give
    185 likes

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  • #22
    Angie Thomas
    “A hairbrush is not a gun.”
    ― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give
    153 likes

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  • #23
    Angie Thomas
    “If bravery is a medical condition, everybody's misdiagnosed me.”
    ― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give
    95 likes

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  • #24
    Angie Thomas
    “You need Saturday to recover and Sunday to repent.”
    ― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give
    tags: humor
    44 likes

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  • #25
    Angie Thomas
    “This is exactly what They expect you to do," Momma says.
    They with a capital T.
    There's Them and then there's Us.
    Sometimes They look like Us and don't recognize They are Us.”
    ― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give
    tags: prejudice-racism
    51 likes

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  • #26
    Angie Thomas
    “Besties before testes.”
    ― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give
    76 likes

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  • #27
    Angie Thomas
    “Good-byes hurt the most when the other person’s already gone.”
    ― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give
    tags: death, goodbye, goodbyes, grief, loss, mourning
    282 likes

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  • #28
    Angie Thomas
    “What is Tumblr anyway? Is it like Facebook?"
    "No, and you're forbidden to get one. No parents allowed. You guys already took over Facebook.”
    ― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give
    39 likes

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  • #29
    Angie Thomas
    “Don’t let them put words in your mouth. God gave you a brain. You don’t need theirs.”
    ― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give
    162 likes

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  • #30
    Angie Thomas
    “Slave masters thought they were making a difference in black people’s lives too. Saving them from their “wild African ways.” Same shit, different century. I wish people like them would stop thinking that people like me need saving.”
    ― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give
    19 likes

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  • #31
    Angie Thomas
    “Funerals aren't for dead people. They're for the living.”
    ― Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give
    147 likes



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