Words of Wisdom

  • I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back ~ Maya Angelou 
  • If someone tells you who they are, believe them ~ Maya Angelou
  •  Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.  It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
  • Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t ~ Margaret Thatcher
  • The kind of beauty I want most is the hard to get kind that comes from within – strength, courage, dignity ~ Ruby Dee
  • The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry ~ Robert Burns
  • Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you’ll be cricized anyway. You’ll be damend if you do and damned if you don’t. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
  • In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different ~ Coco Chanel
  • Until you lose your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is ~ Margaret Mitchell
  • You can’t build a reputation on what you intend to do ~ Liz Smith
  • I don’t know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future ~ Ralph Abernathy
  • When you educate a man you educate an individual, but when you educate a woman, you educate a nation ~ Johnnetta B. Cole
  • I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody  ~ Bill Cosby
  • Don’t feel entitled to anything you didn’t sweat and struggle for ~ Marian Wright Edelman
  • The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do. ~ Leontyne Price
  • You can’t look forward and backward at the same time ~ Coleman Young