"Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude."

-- Michelle Obama

#Confidence Quotes #Country Quotes #African American Quotes

“I`m surrounded by people and feel alone.”
“We all have this place in us, a place of strength, harmony and wisdom, but most of the time we don't live there How can we course-correct faster? How can we encourage each other to live in that place more?”
“The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.”
“Its better to shoot and miss, then to let time run out and wonder what if”
“If flowers want to grow right out of concrete sidewalk cracks I'm going to bend down and smell them.”

Source : "Poems, 1934-1969".
“Be surprised by joy, be surprised by the little flower that shows its beauty in the midst of a barren desert, and be surprised by the immense healing power that keeps bursting forth like springs of fresh water from the depth of our pain.”
“Colombe Josse is the older Jesse daughter. Colombe Jesse is also a sort of tall blonde leek who dresses like a penniless Bohemian. If there is one thing I despise, it is the perverse affectation of rich people who go around dressing as if they were poor, in second-hand clothes, ill-fitting gray bonnets, socks full of holes, and flowered shirts under threadbare sweaters. Not only is it ugly, it is also insulting: nothing is more despicable than a rich man's scorn for a poor man's longing.”
“Mental strength is what separates champions from near champions.”

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