“Gratitude turns what we have into enough and more.” - Author Melanie Beattie
December 27, 2025 at 11:23 AM
“Gratitude turns what we have into enough and more.” - Author Melanie Beattie
“Through music, we express thoughts, feelings, moods, emotions and creativity.” - Music educator Jackie Silberg
December 26, 2025 at 12:57 PM
“Through music, we express thoughts, feelings, moods, emotions and creativity.” - Music educator Jackie Silberg
In this season of reflection, I found these Whitney Houston magazine covers in a stack of memorabilia. Made me reflect on how fortunate Gen X kids like me were to have so many symbols of Black excellence. They were abundant: TV, the radio,the covers of Black-owned publications.
December 24, 2025 at 11:08 AM
In this season of reflection, I found these Whitney Houston magazine covers in a stack of memorabilia. Made me reflect on how fortunate Gen X kids like me were to have so many symbols of Black excellence. They were abundant: TV, the radio,the covers of Black-owned publications.
“Without dreams and goals, there is no living, merely existing, and that is not why we are here.” - Mark Twain
December 23, 2025 at 10:11 AM
“Without dreams and goals, there is no living, merely existing, and that is not why we are here.” - Mark Twain
“Do not judge me on my successes. Judge me on how many times I failed and got back up again.” - Nelson Mandela
December 22, 2025 at 9:48 AM
“Do not judge me on my successes. Judge me on how many times I failed and got back up again.” - Nelson Mandela
“Vacuum up everything you can with your eyes.” - Album cover designer Glenn Parsons, who designed iconic the logo for Prince’s “Sign o the Times,” on how to develop your creativity.
December 21, 2025 at 12:38 PM
“Vacuum up everything you can with your eyes.” - Album cover designer Glenn Parsons, who designed iconic the logo for Prince’s “Sign o the Times,” on how to develop your creativity.
“Being an introvert … I created my own worlds to live in.” - Filmmaker James Sweeney
December 20, 2025 at 11:32 AM
“Being an introvert … I created my own worlds to live in.” - Filmmaker James Sweeney
“These films are like my children and I don’t make them to just give them away.” - Ava Duvernay
December 19, 2025 at 11:01 AM
“These films are like my children and I don’t make them to just give them away.” - Ava Duvernay
“It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us into trouble. It’s the things we know that just ain’t so.” - Josh Billings
December 18, 2025 at 10:23 AM
“It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us into trouble. It’s the things we know that just ain’t so.” - Josh Billings
"I've seen amazing movies play to almost empty theaters because of zero promotion and I've seen awful, but heavily promoted movies play to full theaters. ... You have to work hard. …Having a good movie is not enough." - Film festival programmer Nubia Flores
December 17, 2025 at 10:43 AM
"I've seen amazing movies play to almost empty theaters because of zero promotion and I've seen awful, but heavily promoted movies play to full theaters. ... You have to work hard. …Having a good movie is not enough." - Film festival programmer Nubia Flores
“If you’re willing to do whatever it takes to make your art, that makes you more of an artist.” - Filmmaker Noam Kroll
December 15, 2025 at 10:47 AM
“If you’re willing to do whatever it takes to make your art, that makes you more of an artist.” - Filmmaker Noam Kroll
“‘I just don’t want that for myself anymore’ is a valid enough reason to stop anything.” - Mel Robbins
December 14, 2025 at 10:40 AM
“‘I just don’t want that for myself anymore’ is a valid enough reason to stop anything.” - Mel Robbins
Honored to write this tribute to Gregory Williams, first Black dean of Ohio State's Moritz College of Law, for the Alumni Magazine. I grew up in an interracial family like Mr. Williams, and in this article I share how he showed me a blind spot I had about race alumnimagazine.osu.edu/story/in-mem...
December 13, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Honored to write this tribute to Gregory Williams, first Black dean of Ohio State's Moritz College of Law, for the Alumni Magazine. I grew up in an interracial family like Mr. Williams, and in this article I share how he showed me a blind spot I had about race alumnimagazine.osu.edu/story/in-mem...
“We all struggle through life. We tend not to be interested in people who don’t.” - Author/filmmaker Steve Stockman
December 12, 2025 at 12:28 PM
“We all struggle through life. We tend not to be interested in people who don’t.” - Author/filmmaker Steve Stockman
“The real game for anyone who likes writing is just to release a lot of books. … It’s all about the long game.” - Author Paul Millerd
December 11, 2025 at 10:06 AM
“The real game for anyone who likes writing is just to release a lot of books. … It’s all about the long game.” - Author Paul Millerd
“I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.” - Charlotte Brontë
December 10, 2025 at 10:22 AM
“I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.” - Charlotte Brontë
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” - Albert Einstein
December 9, 2025 at 10:05 AM
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” - Albert Einstein
“Take what’s nutritious. Discard what isn’t.” - Therapist Kier Gaines on how to process “advice.”
December 8, 2025 at 10:30 AM
“Take what’s nutritious. Discard what isn’t.” - Therapist Kier Gaines on how to process “advice.”
“By taking action, the action itself will produce the feelings and motivation you need to follow through.” - Author Hal Elrod
December 7, 2025 at 10:19 AM
“By taking action, the action itself will produce the feelings and motivation you need to follow through.” - Author Hal Elrod
“Habits are either the best or worst things in the world; they either carry us to heaven or hurl us to hell. Form only those that will prove an honor to you.” - Philip Dormer Stanhope
December 6, 2025 at 11:45 AM
“Habits are either the best or worst things in the world; they either carry us to heaven or hurl us to hell. Form only those that will prove an honor to you.” - Philip Dormer Stanhope
“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” - Pablo Picasso
December 5, 2025 at 10:15 AM
“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” - Pablo Picasso
“A little bit of idealism in a world of cynical resignation … goes a long way.” - Adam Theron-Lee Rensch
December 4, 2025 at 11:55 AM
“A little bit of idealism in a world of cynical resignation … goes a long way.” - Adam Theron-Lee Rensch
“I’m very serious about making people laugh.” - Sherri Shepherd
December 3, 2025 at 10:41 AM
“I’m very serious about making people laugh.” - Sherri Shepherd
“Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.” - Winston Churchill
December 2, 2025 at 10:48 AM
“Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.” - Winston Churchill