“Stand tall and be proud. Realize confidence is charismatic and something that is something money can't buy, it radiates from within you.”
Source: My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
“Project a confident image through good body posture.”
Source: My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today
“It was not only colored people who praised John, since they could not, John felt, in any case really know; but white people also said it, in fact had said it first and said it still. It was when John was five years old and in the first grade that he was first noticed; and since he was noticed by an eye altogether alien and impersonal, he began to perceive, in wild uneasiness, his individual existence.”
Source: Go Tell It on the Mountain
“I do respect clever.”
Source: The Price of Nobility
“Time weaves its course into an intricate and vibrant mantle that some undo by going back to where their personal experiences started.”
Source: Insights of A Rebel Mind: Embracing The Power Within
“We seldom look up to the person; we usually look up to their persona.”
“We shouldn't be seeking the respect of an unjust system that will not respect us on the basis of our humanity alone.”
Source: Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man's Education
“If you have not seen the real end of the journey, don’t boast much at the beginning and never be too proud and haughty in mid of the path. Keep the real end in mind and mind how to get to the real end successfully!”
“For a moment this day, for many moments this May, let us gape in awe at the strength of women, and look upon their sinewy courage with respect and humility, as the Lord looked on His Mother, and still does. Like Him we are of women born, and to women must pay our first respect, and owe our first love, for they are as strong as the very ribs of the earth.”
Source: Credo: Essays on Grace, Altar Boys, Bees, Kneeling, Saints, the Mass, Priests, Strong Women, Epiphanies, a Wake, and the Haun
“It's to have people see her instead of her condition. That's all that anybody with a disability wants. Don't sum up the person based on what you see, or what you don't understand; get to know them.”
Source: The Running Dream