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Be Confident

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I am sharing this poem because the words are so true and the writer so very young. Be encouraged!

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BY ADESEWA OYINKANSOLA YACE
31 MARCH 2014

Confidence is facing the challenges of your life with courage. Confidence is never backing out, even when things are not going your way yet. Confidence is saying, “YES,” and meaning it. Confidence is saying, “NO,” and meaning it. Confidence is not compromising.
Confidence is standing and holding on to that which you know is true, no matter what.
Confidence is what you need to overcome your fears. So, to be somebody, have Confidence in yourself.
Only Confidence keeps you going.

Oyinkansola Adesewa_ 11 yr old Writer of Be Confident

Oyinkansola Adesewa (pictured) is 11 years old. She loves writing, drawing, painting, designing clothes, dancing, and modeling. She is presently a student of Yaba College Of Technology Secondary School, Yaba-Lagos. Oyinkansola started writing at the age of 6. Her first poem book titled “Thoughts of a Child” was published when she was 8 years old through a writing contest. Presently, she still writes and has written more poems outside the ones in her book.

Credit: Face2Face Africa

Equality Versus Justice

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It can be pretty simple to fathom what we all consider equality, but justice is a little stickier. Example: If I am handing out chocolate and you each get an ounce, that’s equal. But, if each of you has eaten chocolate in the last day and one of you has never tasted chocolate, is one ounce justice to that unfulfilled soul? I use chocolate as my example because you all know what living without it would mean for me, so I’m hoping you get the dire consequences of my analogy. Is justice equal?

Equality of Justice

Standing On Their Shoulders – Percy Lavon Julian

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Today would be Julian Percy’s 115th birthday. I celebrate his legacy and the accomplishments he made during a time when African Americans seldom received credit for their work.

Percy Lavon Julian

Percy Lavon Julian (April 11, 1899 – April 19, 1975) was a U.S. research chemist and a pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants.[1] He was the first to synthesize the natural product physostigmine, and a pioneer in the industrial large-scale chemical synthesis of the human hormones progesterone and testosterone from plant sterols such as stigmasterol and sitosterol. His work laid the foundation for the steroid drug industry’s production of cortisone, other corticosteroids, and birth control pills.

He later started his own company to synthesize steroid intermediates from the Mexican wild yam. His work helped greatly reduce the cost of steroid intermediates to large multinational pharmaceutical companies, helping to significantly expand the use of several important drugs.

Julian received more than 130 chemical patents. He was one of the first African-Americans to receive a doctorate in chemistry. He was the first African-American chemist inducted into the National Academy of Sciences, and the second African-American scientist inducted from any field. Credit: Wikipedia

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Who Is Your Competition?

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Your Competition

Positivity

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SOMETIMES IT’S A HARD CHOICE AS COMFORTABLE & SAFE ARE ALWAYS NICE, BUT AMAZING & SUCCESSFUL ARE EVEN BETTER #positivity!

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You Are Amazing!

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Happy Saturday to all! It’s the weekend and we should take time to reboot and recharge. I will be searching for chocolate ideas so stay tuned…

You are Amazing

Arlenes Sosa For Vanidades Magazine April 2014 Issue

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Arlenes Sosa sizzles For Vanidades Magazine’s April 2014 issue, in a red hot editorial titled: El rojo.

Photographer Enrique Vega captures the gorgeous Dominican model styled by Anna Katsanis, and poses in sultry red looks, from Spring 2014′s hottest collections, including pieces from Chanel, Valentino, and Prada among others. #FashionfriendsofTenaciousM enjoy!!

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ODE TO T.Z.

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Standards High!

This is a poem for sad women.
It belongs to that ubiquitous, yet peculiar sect of
women who are destined to lack necessary
qualities which reap lives of gaiety and
terminal bliss.

Those who nurtured us should have warned
that women of talent encounter
ice walls which melt only for coquettish smiles.
At best, we could have known to conceal
our natural resources.