"All these boundaries - Africa, Asia, Malaysia, America - are set by men.  But you don't have to look at boundaries when you are looking at a man - at the character of a man.  The question is: What do you stand for?...

"I'd rather see if I can help a child than settle an argument between adults over money" ~Jane Bolin Jane Matilda Bolin, LL.B. (April 11, 1908 – January 8, 2007) was the first black woman to graduate from Yale Law...

"You cannot define a person on just one thing.  You can’t just forget all these wonderful and good things that a person has done  because one thing didn’t come off the way you thought it should come off." To say that...

“Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations.” —Dr. Mae Jemison, the first African-American female astronaut Mae Carol Jemison is an American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut.  She became the...

"If you’re always trying to be NORMAL you will never know how AMAZING you can be." Maya Angelou was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist, author, actress, screenwriter and dancer. She was best known...

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can." Arthur Robert Ashe, Jr., was born in Richmond on July 10, 1943.  He first picked up a tennis racket as a young boy at a segregated playground near his...

"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world." Harriet Tubman was an American abolitionist and...

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.  Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible...

" I'm the Greatest " was his rallying call and Ali became the G.O.A.T in the boxing arena.   He was an American professional boxer, activist, entertainer, and philanthropist. Nicknamed The Greatest, he is widely...

On what would have been her 105th birthday, here is an inspiring quote from Rosa Parks. “Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today’s mighty oak is yesterday’s nut that held its ground.” Rosa Parks...

During the early weeks of the pandemic as a frontline emergency medicine physician, the morale, mental and emotional health was challenging to all levels of the healthcare team. I discovered a method called the...

Charles Drew was one of America's best physicians because he was the first person to introduce a system for storing blood plasma  and organizing America's first large-scale blood bank. Born on June 3, 1904, in...