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Prepared for Wayne S. | Delivered November 2, 2019
Inspirational Quotes
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Goals
To identify an additional 20 quotes from prominent hip-hop artists and leaders, geared towards men, black men, and the black community, and focused on wellness, heath, productivity, and culture.
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Early Findings
1) "The cheerful mind perseveres, and the strong mind hews its way through a thousand difficulties."
Swami Vivekananda
2) "Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it, and watch the whole transform."
Rene Descartes
3) "Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before."
Franz Kafka
4) "Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work."
Stephen King
5) "To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult."
Johann Wolfgang Von Goeth
6) "I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity."
Oprah Winfrey
7) "Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation."
Brian Tracy
8) "You may delay, but time will not."
Benjamin Franklin
9) "Remember one thing. Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out. Keep your head up, and handle it."
Tupac
10) "If at first you don't succeed. You can dust it off and try again. Dust yourself off and try again."
Aaliyah
11) "Cause sometimes you just feel tired. Feel weak, and when you feel weak, you feel like you wanna just give up. But you gotta search within you, you gotta find that inner strength. And just pull that sh** out of you and get that motivation to not give up. And not be a quitter, no matter how bad you wanna just fall flat on your face and collapse."
Eminem
12) "Nobody's perfect, ain't none of us worthless. We all got a place, and we all got a purpose."
Murs
13) "I’m not a businessman, I’m a business… man."
Jay-Z
14) "I learned working with the negatives can make for better pictures."
Drake
15) "I’m going to always rise above the doubt that may exist about me."
T. I.
16) "We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society."
Angela Davis
17) "My mama always used to tell me: if you can’t find something to live for, you best find something to die for."
Tupac
18) "I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false and to incur my own abhorrence."
Frederick Douglass
19) "The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any."
Alice Walker
20) "One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation."
Arthur Ashe
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