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“Community, connection, and conversation only happen when we actually experience life with others.”
― Brad Lomenick, H3 Leadership: Be Humble. Stay Hungry. Always Hustle.

“If children conform to the standards set by their peers, in the seventies and eighties the peer pressure for black children to keep with their own was intense. Before desegregation, “acting white” was a phrase no one had ever heard with regard to school involvement or academics. Yet in the wake of busing, it rose to become one of the most hurtful insults one black student could level at another. Talking white, dressing white, being enthusiastic about anything “white” was forsaking one’s own. For the thirty-eight black students at Vestavia, there was the black cafeteria table and there were the other cafeteria tables, and it was one or the other. There was no going back and forth.”
― Tanner Colby, Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America

“The things we buy and the brands we use are just another way for us to project our preconceptions onto one another.”
― Tanner Colby, Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America

“The brain is a goal-seeking organism. Setting a goal creates structural tension in your brain, which will seek to close the gap between where you are and where you want to be, who you are and who you want to become. If you don’t set goals, your mind will become stagnant. Goal setting is good stewardship of your right-brain imagination. It’s also great for your prayer life.”
― Mark Batterson, The Circle Maker (Enhanced Edition): Praying Circles Around Your Biggest Dreams and Greatest Fears