Sophia A Nelson Quotes

if you let others define you and tell you your value, your journey in life will be hard, passionless, and unfulfilling

Stereotypes aren't funny when they follow you everywhere.

People of good character and good intentions are not always going to come down on the same side of political, moral, religious, or social issues.

Leadership, at its core, is about character: specifically, a character attuned to its ethical responsibilities to others.

A visionary is one who sees beyond his present reality or circumstance and paves the way for others who come after him to get where he himself would like to be.

Erase the negative tapes in your head—don’t let your history define your destiny. Realize that what you think about you is what others will think about you. Shift your thinking to put you at the top of your list.

The twenty-first-century successful black woman is brilliant and tenacious and not afraid to flex her intellectual, spiritual, or financial muscles. She has accomplished, earned, and owned more than black women of any other generation in American history.

They passed another landing. Nelson and Sophia had taped the doors off, but faces watched from behind dirty glass. Juliette spotted an elderly woman holding a bright cross against the glass. As she turned, the woman rubbed the cross and kissed it, and Juliette thought of Father Wendel and the idea that she was bringing fear, not hope, to the silo. Hope was what he and the church offered, some place to exist after death. Fear came from the chance that changing the world for the better could possibly make it worse. She waited until they were beneath the landing. “Hey, Luke?” “Yeah?” “Do you ever wonder what happens to us after we’re gone?” “I know what happens to us,” he said. “We get slathered in butter and chewed off the cob.” He laughed at his own joke. “I’m serious. Do you think our souls join the clouds and find some better place?” His laughter stopped. “No,” he said after a long pause. “I think we simply stop being.” They

Never cut what you can untie.