Lisa

“In every previous classroom, I had been responsible for decoding teachers’ references to white middle-class experiences. It’s like when you’re sailing…or You know how when you’re skiing, you have to…My white teachers had an unspoken commitment to the belief that we are all the same, a default setting that masked for them how often white culture bled into the curriculum.”
― Austin Channing Brown, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

“Would you consider that the folks you admire most, the ones thriving in the career you want or living in a vibrant way that makes your heart swell are there because they asked for a lot of help along the way? And do still? They are not too proud to ask for assistance, admit when they are stumped, learn from other people, reinforce their weaknesses. Nor do they hesitate to share credit, pass the microphone, celebrate the victories of others, consider it a group win.”
― Jen Hatmaker, Fierce, Free, and Full of Fire: The Guide to Being Glorious You

“No amount of lecturing and nagging would have accomplished this result. It took an experience with parental boundaries to develop child boundaries. You are like an oak tree that the child runs her head into over and over again, until she realizes that the tree is stronger than she is, and she walks around it next time.”
― Henry Cloud, Boundaries with Kids: When to Say Yes, How to Say No

“The trick to dealing with criticism is letting it do its good work but forbidding it to demoralize and destroy or to embitter.”
― Beth Moore, All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir