“Our celebration
of initiative and enterprise,
our insistence on hard work
and personal responsibility,
are constants in our character.”
President Barack Obama
“I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much
the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black:
it means that I must undertake to love myself
and to respect myself as though my very life
depends upon self-love and self-respect.” –
June Jordan
“We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives.
We must take charge of our own destinies,
design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.”
Les Louis Brown
“I believe that I have the power
to take the initiative to create
the kind of life experience that I choose
for myself at any time in my life.”
Dwayne Alvin Hearn