“Just that, two people, witnessing or experiencing the same event, can have two entirely different interpretations of the truth. To one person, the knot was a heart, and removing it devastated the stone such that it succumbed to the artist’s vision. To another, the knot was an obstruction to the stone, preventing it from being what or who it was meant to be.”
― Beard Necessities
― Beard Necessities
“To know the past is to know the present. To know the present it to know yourself.”
― Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
― Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You
“Recently, on a call with a company hiring me to teach about leadership, a man said, "Excuse me, Abby, I just need to ensure that what you present is applicable to men, too."
I said, "Good question! But only if you've asked every male speaker you;ve hired if his message is applicable to women, too.”
― WOLFPACK: How to Come Together, Unleash Our Power and Change the Game
I said, "Good question! But only if you've asked every male speaker you;ve hired if his message is applicable to women, too.”
― WOLFPACK: How to Come Together, Unleash Our Power and Change the Game
“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” — Ernest Hemingway”
― Beard Necessities
― Beard Necessities
“Men talk of the Negro problem. There is no Negro problem,” Douglass declared in 1894, as the shadow of Jim Crow fell across the nation. “The problem is whether the American people have honesty enough, loyalty enough, honor enough, patriotism enough to live up to their Constitution.”
― Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
― Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
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