02/25/10

Cutting people out of your life is easy, keeping them in is hard. -Walter Dean Myers

02/24/10

Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept. -Lucille Clifton

02/22/10

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. -Barack Obama

02/19/10

Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties. -Benjamin Banneker

02/17/10

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging. -Hank Aaron

02/16/10

I live a day at a time. Each day I look for a kernel of excitement. In the morning I say: “What is my exciting thing for today?” Then, I do the day. Don't ask me about tomorrow. -Barbara Jordan

02/09/10

Give your brain as much attention as your hair and you'll be a thousand times better off. -Malcolm X

02/08/10

I've come to appreciate the planet we live on. It's a small ball in a large universe. It's a very fragile ball but also very beautiful. You don't recognize that until you see it from a little farther off. -Guion Bluford

02/03/10

I can accept failure. Everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying. -Michael Jordan

02/02/10

We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color. -Maya Angelou