Ricklys Quotes & Sayings

The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people! — Randy Pausch

A white college student from a private college goes into a poor neighborhood and volunteers four hours a week and that's considered exemplary. [Whereas] a poor kid who lives in that community and takes care of all the kids in that neighborhood four hours every day is not seen as a volunteer. — Patricia Hill Collins

The limitations you have and the negative things that you internalize are given to you by the world. The thing that empowers you - the possibilities - come from within. — Les Brown

The double jeopardy of being black and female in a racist and sexist society may well make one less afraid of the sanctions against success. A non-subservient black woman is by definition a transgressive- she is the ultimate outsider. — Mamphela Ramphele

Some after-the-fact storytelling is inevitable, and, in fact, very good and useful. But then we want always to be able to enrich the stories, or maybe change the stories with a fresh infusion of specificity. — Nicholson Baker