"What you say"???

When a woman is assertive and adamant about what it is she wants, she's totally branded a 'bitch,'' difficult,' 'hard to work with,' or whatever the case may be. You know what? I'll take it. Call me a bitch, call me whatever, it doesn't matter. What it all boils down to is when the day is over, I'm still walking away with what it is that I came in there to get."


-Kelis

The secret of How to Be Happy (Growing to Be Me)

Are you lonely sometimes? This is good. Gives you time to think. Do you feel misunderstood? Wonderful. Gives you a reason to pursue definitions. Do you feel unloved. Great. Gives you a reason to sympathize with other endangered species. Makes you know that you have to reach out,  up reach a little further. Reach again and grab a hold of yourself.




-Nikki Giovanni

Words of Wisdom

It's easy to believe that if someone else loves you, it means that you're lovable. But it's not true. Good feelings about yourself can only come from inside. No one can give that to you and no one should have to agree that you are beautiful to prove it to you. LOVE SPRINGS WITHIN. CONFIDENCE COMES FROM AN AWAREMESS of your own potential.

-Tatyana Ali

"The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome"

-Helen Keller

Ego Trippn By Nikki Giovanni

I was born in the Congo
I walked to the fertile crescent and built
   the sphinx
I designed a pyramid so tough that a star
   that only glows every one hundred years falls
   into the center giving divine perfect light
I am bad

I sat on the throne
   drinking nectar with Allah
I got hot and sent an ice age to Europe
   to cool my thirst
My oldest daughter is Nefertiti
   the tears from my birth pains
   created the Nile
I am a beautiful woman

I gazed on the forest and burned
   out the Sahara desert
   with a packet of goat's meat
   and a change of clothes
I crossed it in two hours
I am a gazelle so swift
   so swift you can't catch me

   For a birthday present when he was three
I gave my son Hannibal an elephant
   He gave me Rome for mother's day
My strength flows ever on

My son Noah built new/ark and
I stood proudly at the helm
   as we sailed on a soft summer day
I turned myself into myself and was
   Jesus
   men intone my loving name
   All praises All praises
I am the one who would save

I sowed diamonds in my back yard
My bowels deliver uranium
   the filings from my fingernails are
   semi-precious jewels
   On a trip north
I caught a cold and blew
My nose giving oil to the Arab world
I am so hip even my errors are correct
I sailed west to reach east and had to round off
   the earth as I went
   The hair from my head thinned and gold was laid
   across three continents

I am so perfect so divine so ethereal so surreal
I cannot be comprehended except by my permission

I mean...I...can fly
   like a bird in the sky... 




                                                           By Nikki Giovanni
                                                                         

Love you for what you love ;)

"WORK TO LIVE, AS OPPOSED TO LIVING TO WORK." YOUR VOCATION IS AN IMPORTANT PART OF WHAT YOU ARE BUT IT DOES NOT DEFINE WHO YOU ARE. KNOW YOURSELF, KNOW WHAT MOTIVATES YOU AND BRINGS YOU HAPPINESS, AND MATCH YOUR CAREER TO THAT.

Candace Bond McKeever

Partner

Impact Strategies, LLC

Yes We Can, and WILL!!!

"As a woman, you can have it all, just not all at one time," and I truly believe this! Life comes at you in stages, and you have to reassess and adjust for each one.

-Candace Bond McKeever

 Partner

 Impact Strategies, LLC