“I wish you would apply yourself more. Not just in my class, but in everything. You are capable of doing great things.” — Ms. Glass, history teacher
It was a week before winter break in my Junior year of High …
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“I wish you would apply yourself more. Not just in my class, but in everything. You are capable of doing great things.” — Ms. Glass, history teacher
It was a week before winter break in my Junior year of High …
“My mentor taught me you can get over anything if you believe you can”
My old elementary school teacher told me to say and do these exact things to help me get over anything, pain, sadness, guilt, remorse, heart break, …
“Women have to be bitches to get what they want. If not they will be taken for granted.”
I was looking at my options in what I can do with my life, and one of them was joining the air …
“Use what the world gives you and make something out of yourself.”
When my mother told me this, It changed my perspective on the purpose of life and the goals I need to set for myself. I was in High …
“You do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself around that’s what it’s all about”
It’s a pretty weird way to start things off but that’s what my godparents told me. It’s weird for a children song to be so …
“You can never be what I am or what I will be” – Anonymous Family Member
Being a freshman in high school I soaked every word and experience like a sponge due to the lack of knowledge of who I …
“The best time to plant a tree was 25 years ago. The next best time is now”
_ My Dad
When I got the joy of understanding the true import of this saying, I was only so happy my …
“Temporary pleasures will only harm the future you want to create.”
I was in a parent teacher conference during my senior year and I was sat down with my history teacher alongside my mother. During this time I wasn’t keen …
“You need to work hard now so you can rest later. If you continue being a potato now with a free roof over your head, I don’t know who’s gonna take care of you later.”
These were the words said …
In the reading Malcolm X Chapter 11 “Saved” beginning paragraphs Malcolm x said ” but every book I picked had a few sentence which didn’t contain anywhere from one nearly all the words that might as well have in Chinese …