Black Pearls Living

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WHITE PEOPLE

April 4, 2023

I stopped thinking that all white folks were out to get me.

—Nathan McCall

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BEING BLACK

April 3, 2023

I’ve always been proud to be black. But proud and obsessive are different things.

—Jacob Lamar

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FAMILY CONVERSATION

April 2, 2023

Conversation is food for the ear.

—Trinidadian Proverb

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WELL-BEING

April 1, 2023

Hair and teeth—a man got those two things, he’s got it all.

—James Brown

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SAVING MONEY

March 31, 2023

Save money and money will save you.

—Jamaican Proverb

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DIVERSITY

March 30, 2023

Whence all this passion toward conformity anyway?—diversity is the word.

—Ralph Ellison

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IMPEDIMENTS

March 29, 2023

I tell my students there is such a thing as “writer’s block,” and they should respect it. It’s blocked because it ought to be blocked, because you haven’t got it right now.

—Toni Morrison

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MOTIVATION

March 28, 2023

You cannot teach what you don’t know. You cannot give energy if you’re not on fire on the inside.

—Jesse Jackson

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SELF-DETERMINATION

March 27, 2023

The Negro was invented in America.

—John Oliver Killens

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RELIGION

March 26, 2023

You know what religion is? You got ta live religion. You got ta do religion. You got ta live Right.

—Mance Lipscomb

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