“Many people also don’t understand why I am not more ‘angry’ at the state of things, in our community, and in our world.  The answer here is simple — at the end of the day, anger is not a strategy.  Anger is an emotion, and an unhelpful one when you need to actually make really important decisions about your life.  

No big decision you have ever made, was made better because you added anger to it. Even romantic love, needs some ‘reason’ attached to it, if it is to work.  

In contrast to anger, hope ~ always works.  There has never been an instance, where hope was inappropriate in your life.”

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“When you do what you are passionate about, you don’t get tired. You get worn out. You may be exhausted. But you actually love what you do, which is why you keep doing it — maybe to a point of ‘exhaustion.”

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“If you ask me if I wanted more time, or more money, I would ask for more time. Because if I had more time, I would make more money.”

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“Life is a bit of a game. Either you learn how to play this game, to master it, or the game will play you.”

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The More Radical President Abraham Lincoln, Wanted to Build Black Wealth.

In a provocative piece wrote and published earlier today at LinkedIn Influencers, I frame out and tell the untold story of not only the Freedman’s Bank, chartered ion 1865 to ‘teach freed slaves about money,’ but also President Lincoln’s...