"If your success is defined as being well adjusted to injustice and well adapted to indifference, then we don't want successful leaders. We want great leaders who love the people enough and respect the people enough to be unbought, unbound, unafraid, and unintimidated to tell the truth." - Dr. Cornel West
“The music, the food, the parades – Mardi Gras is everything that makes New Orleans special.” – Harry Connick Jr.
“The New Black doesn’t blame others for our issues. The New Black dreams and realizes that it’s not a pigmentation; it’s a mentality. And it’s either going to work for you, or it’s going to work against you. And you’ve got to pick the side that you’re going to be on.” —Pharrell Williams
“Mardi Gras is the love of life. It is the harmonic convergence of our food, our music, our creativity, our eccentricity, our neighborhoods, and our joy of living. All at once.” — Chris Rose
“Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?” Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.” Matthew 22:36-40 NKJV ~ Sunday night peace and blessings
"On this Valentine's Day, I want to confess that my life changed after you entered it. It's never been the same for me, and I want to cherish you for the rest of my life. Will you allow me to love you and call you mine forever?"
"You make every day better just by being in it. You light up my world like nobody else. I never thought I could love someone as much as I love you. Will you be mine ?"