After a storm comes a calm.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
I can, therefore I am.
Well done is better than well said.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Who seeks shall find.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write.