{"quotes":[{"text":"One strain of African American thought holds that it is a violent black recklessness—the black gangster, the black rioter—that strikes the ultimate terror in white America. Perhaps it does, in the most individual sense. But in the collective sense, what this country really fears is black respectability, Good Negro Government. It applauds, even celebrates, Good Negro Government in the unthreatening abstract—The Cosby Show, for instance. But when it becomes clear that Good Negro Government might, in any way, empower actual Negroes over actual whites, then the fear sets in, the affirmative-action charges begin, and birtherism emerges.","author":"Ta-Nehisi Coates","tags":["affirmative-action","american-myths","birtherism","black-respectability","good-negro-government","racism","ta-nehisi-coates"],"id":307,"author_id":"Ta-Nehisi+Coates"},{"text":"We will never fail. We shall fulfil the dream.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["accomplishment","affirmative-action","assertiveness","capable","dream-big","dreaming","dreams","educational-philosophy","failure","god-grace","inspirational-life","mission","possible","power-of-words","purposeful-living","success","thoughts","uplifting","wise-words"],"id":67289,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"South Africa is the only country where an overwhelming majority in complete political control is apparently so threatened by a tiny minority that they need racist affirmative action policies to protect the majority by legislatively excluding the minority totally from the job market.","author":"Christina Engela","tags":["affirmative-action","country","excluding","job-market","legislatively","majority","overwhelming","policies","political-control","protect","racist","south-africa","threatened","tiny-minority"],"id":124271,"author_id":"Christina+Engela"},{"text":"Embrace the possibility of a fulfilled dream.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["accomplishments","achievement","affirmative-action","assertiveness","capable","dream","great-expectations","great-work","lailah-gifty-akita-affirmations","possible","potential","victory"],"id":138595,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"I am confident of God’s faithfulness.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["affirmative-action","believe","christian","christian-living","gods-sovereignty","inspirational-life","lailah-gifty-akita-affirmations","religion","saved-from-sin","self-confident"],"id":138631,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"My priority is not about grades. I yearn for knowledge, skills and wisdom.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["academic","affirmative-action","ambition","assertiveness","desire","determined-spirit","divine-grace","dont-quit","dont-worry","education","educational-philosophy","failure","god-s-grace","grades","inspirational-life","knowledge","lailah-gifty-akita","lailah-gifty-akita-affirmations","learner","learning","learning-process","life","life-and-living","life-philosophy","lifelong-education","never-give-up","passion","perseverance","persistent-effort","personal-development","personal-growth","positive-attitude","positive-outlook","positive-thinking","positivity","reader","school-grades","seek","self-confidence","self-education","self-motivation","self-realisation","self-study","skills","success","try-again","university","wisdom","yearn"],"id":176703,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"Many a rich man’s bed is bigger than many a poor woman’s bedroom; his bedroom, her house.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["affirmative-action","affluence","affluent","bed","bedroom","beggary","broke","capital","cash","cleaned-out","destitute","destitution","dough","equality","filthy-rich","finance-assets","flat-broke","flush","fortune-money","funds","hard-up","hardship","holdings","house","impecunious","impecuniousness","impoverished","impoverishment","in-debt","in-the-money","indigence","indigent","inequality","insolvent","kitchen","loaded","low-income","lucre","made-of-money","means","moneyed","moneyless","moola","moolah","necessitous","need","neediness","needy","opulent","pauperdom","pauperism","pauperized","penniless","pennilessness","penury","poor","possessions","poverty","poverty-stricken","property","prosperity","prosperous","reserves","resources","riches","rolling-in-it","rolling-in-money","rolling-in-the-dough","securities","silk-stocking","size-counts","size-does-not-count","size-doesn-t-count","stinking-rich","stock","strapped-formal-penurious","substance","treasure","unable-to-make-ends-meet","wealthy","well-heeled","well-off","well-to-do","wherewithal","without-a-cent-to-one-s-name","without-a-sou"],"id":180742,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"Embrace life with hope than despair.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["adventure","adversity","affirmative-action","daily-motivation","despair","destiny","disappointment","embrace","embrace-life","embrace-the-journey","emotional","emotional-pain","forget-the-past","healing-the-past","hope","hurt","inspiring","journey","lailah-gifty-akita-affirmations","less","lessons-learnt","life","life-and-living","pain","positive","positive-outlook","positive-thinking","self-confidence","self-esteem","self-motivation","self-seeking","spiritual-sayings","wisdom","wise-words"],"id":183673,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"May my children, fear, know and walk with God.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["abundant-life","affirmative-action","answered-prayer","assertiveness","belief","believe-in-god","blessed-life","blessings","children","christian","destiny","faith","god-fearing-children","godly","inspiration","lailah-gifty-akita-affirmations","life","life-philosophy","motivation","path","praying-life","praying-mum","religion","self-help","self-realization","time-travel"],"id":196978,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"What we believe in our heart, we must declare with our mouth.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["affirmative-action","assertiveness","belief","believe","believe-in-god","christian","christianity","confess","desires","dream-big","encouragement","faith","hope","hope-and-despair","inspiration","lailah-gifty-akita-affirmations","positive-words","power-of-words","profess","religon","speak","trust-god","wise-words","wishes"],"id":210653,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":22,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}