CHAMPIONS

Champs view each challenge not as an insurmountable hurdle, but as an opportunity for another victory. — Lenda Murray On…
06.19.19
ENCOURAGEMENT

My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough,  someone who needed smoothing. –Mary Frances Berry On this day, …
06.19.19
SELF-CONFIDENCE

Not only do I knock’em out,  I pick the round. –Muhammad Ali On this day,  using family,  friends,  or historical…
06.19.19
RELAXATION

When I got stuck on lyrics,  I’d pick up a knife and start chopping something,  just to relax my head.…
06.19.19
TOUCH

Not touching someone is a way of rejecting him. –James Baldwin                                            On this day,  I will be sure to…
06.19.19
VOICES

Our voices are as much a giveaway as our clothes. They reveal what we want to be and can’t help…
06.19.19
PATRIOTISM

This is our home and this is our country. Beneath it’s soil lie the bones of our fathers: for it…
06.19.19
AMBITION

My teacher asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, and I told her a scientist. She…
06.19.19
CONDESCENSION

I never talk down to my audience. –Flip Wilson On this day, I pledge to make it known to my…
06.19.19
ATTITUDE

If you asked me the secret to longeviity, I would tell you that you have to work at taking care…
06.19.19
ELOQUENCE

The Jackson kids were taught to be well spoken at all times. We were to be ar-ti-cu-late. I worked hard…
06.19.19
ADVERSITY

Give advice, if people don’t listen, let adversity teach them. –Ethiopian proverb On this day, I will take five minutes…
06.19.19
LABELING

Mom’s favorite question was, “Boy, why you so bad?” I tried many times to explain to Mama that I wasn’t…
06.19.19
FIGHTING

It takes steady nerves and being a fighter to stay out there. –Wilma Rudolph On this day, I will discuss…
06.19.19
CYCLES

When I’m not hittin’, I don’t hit nobody, But when I’m hittin’, I hit anybody! –Willie Mays On this day,…
06.19.19
POWER

Sharp ax better than big muscle. –African American Proverb On this day, I will take five minutes to emphasize to…
06.19.19
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