“Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great because greatness is determined by service... You only need a heart full of grace and a soul generated by love.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.

Sapphire Tower. Nature’s gift of splendor.

I spent almost every night in June out with the mayor of NYC—though he didn’t know it—a team of reporters following him for 30 straight days in his unusual evening exploits to find out what this secretive public official does in the dark. [thread] nytimes.com/2022/08/22/nyr…

Focus your attention and efforts on being positive and working towards the good of yourself.

I can’t give up, family.

Don’t accept your perceived limitation as fate; if you do, it will be!

Outrage culture wants you to react to everything, drain your energy, and in the process impact your health. Take autonomy of your attention. Focus on what you can change. Give generously. Build a life that inspires others to do the same.

Go Bills! Let’s get this done today.

Love, and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation. -Emerson

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope..

No one is free until we are all free. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

American dream🇺🇸 “I will go out with you and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows. With this faith, we will be able to achieve this new day”-mlk Believe her in! Happy birthday.

Kindness by Naomi Shihab Nye Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth. What you held in your hand, what you counted and carefully saved, all this must go so you know how desolate the

“To become an American is to become part Indian, part Black, part Anglo-Saxon, and part frontiersman—because these are the roots of American experience. That’s why we mustn’t be too confining.” -Romare Bearden A reminder from Romare Bearden: American identity is layered,

Happy Independence Day to our beloved nation! The American dream is still alive!

Our nation may not be perfect, but she is ours—and she is worth every measure of devotion. Happy Independence Day!

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice".  It’s bending y’all. Stand strong in justice, truth and love!

Black Americans—once called Indian, slave, negro, black, colored and now African-American—have been forged in fiery battle and cast into the furnace of hate. Yet from the ashes, we rose: stripped of illusion, shaped by truth, and crowned with culture. Well done, faithful servants

We are put on earth for a little while, so that we may learn to bear the beams of love. -William Blake , “The Little Black Boy.”