Sometimes the truth don’t rhyme.

Sometimes the lies get millions of views.

Funerals for little girls, is that appealing to you?

From your cubicle desktop, what a beautiful view.

- Chance the Rapper, “Acid Rain”

Take me to the old playground

Where the old ones rule, and the young ones do their time.

Take me to the old playground

Where the talk is cheap

And the restless stalk that baseline. 

- Bruce Hornsby & The Range, “The Old Playground”

“The key…is being aware of how you’re feeling

and how you need to be feeling.

It all starts with awareness.”

- Kobe Bryant

“You don’t want to beat yourself up for beating yourself up, in the vain hope that it will somehow make you stop beating yourself up.”

- Dr. Kristin Neff

“That’s why they call it the American Dream,

because you have to be asleep to believe it.”

- George Carlin

“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” - John Wooden

“Leave the road, take the trails.”

- Pythagoras

“Perfectionism is a twenty-ton shield that we lug around

thinking it will protect us when, in fact,

it’s the thing that’s preventing us from taking flight.”

-Brene Brown

“What would the world be like without music or rivers or the green and tender grass? What would this world be like without dogs?”

- Mary Oliver 

“Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.”

- Chadwick Boseman as King T’Challa, “Black Panther”

“It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime.

What better place than here, what better time than now?”

- Rage Against the Machine, “Guerilla Radio”

“What do we teach our children in school? We teach them that two and two make four and that Paris in the capital of France. When will we also teach them what they are? We should say to each of them, ‘Do you know what you are? You are a marvel. You are unique. In all the world there is no other child exactly like you.’”

-       Pablo Casals

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

– The Who, “Won’t Get Fooled Again” 

Terms like zero-tolerance and lock-down
Aging out, if you ask me, does not sound like education
But I suppose that's a 'cause and effect'
When the city spends more on incarceration. 

- J-Live, “Brooklyn Public, Part 1”

“All I got is dreams, nobody else believes,

nobody else can see, nobody else but me.”

- Jay-Z, “History”

“Love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort,

and keep on learning.”

– Carol Dweck

“We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are.”

- Anais Nin

“Don’t it always seem to go,

that you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone.”

-Joni Mitchell, “Big Yellow Taxi”