Rachel Lott

“If you want to meet your true love, don’t focus on wanting someone to take away your loneliness or make you feel less unloved. Instead think about everything you have to offer the right person, and imagine the beautiful, productive relationship you will have, which is what you will project and attract.”
― Jillian Michaels, Unlimited: A Three-Step Plan for Achieving Your Dreams

“I felt leap within me pride that I was colored; and I began to form wild dreams of bringing glory and honor to the Negro race.”
― James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man

“She was afraid to suggest to him that to most people, nothing "happens." That most people merely live from day to day until they die. That, after he had been dead a year, doubtless fewer than five people would think of him oftener than once a year. That there might even come a year when no one on earth would think of him at all.”
― Gwendolyn Brooks, Maud Martha

“For days I could talk of nothing else with my mother except my ambitions to be a great man, a great colored man, to reflect credit on the race and gain fame for myself.”
― James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man