From childhood forward, our hair is one of the most critical, defining aspects of our embodied selves as black women: how we get it done. . . how we have to focus on it. . . the questions we have to answer about it. . . and so forth.
In order to WIN the game, you must first not LOSE it.
Champions are champions not because they do anything extraordinary but because they do the ordinary things better than anyone else.
On every team, there is a core group that sets the tone for everyone else. If the tone is positive, you have half the battle won. If it is negative, you are beaten before you ever walk on the field.
If you want to win, do the ordinary things better than anyone else does them day in and day out.
Good things come to those who hustle
Pressure is something you feel when you do not know what you are doing.
The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold. The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war betwixt princes.
When I was playing football, I was getting up to 240 pounds, and they wanted me to get to 260.
We should learn and reflect to the best of our capacity, but when we reach a point where we are unable to make sense of life, we should supplant faith for understanding, and reflect again on what we do know.
Your mind is your weapon. Load your weapon.