I will just create, and if it works, it works, and if it doesn't, I'll create something else. I don't have any limitations on what I think I could do or be.
Oprah WinfreyRead
I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms.
Interpretation
Life is a learning experience, akin to attending school where we continuously learn and grow.
Oprah Winfrey's quote suggests that the world serves as a vast classroom where life experiences act as lessons that teach us about ourselves and the realities of existence. This view encourages individuals to approach life with a mindset of curiosity and openness to learning, seeing challenges and experiences as opportunities for growth and knowledge.
In practice
In a graduation speech discussing the lessons learned through challenges.
I will just create, and if it works, it works, and if it doesn't, I'll create something else. I don't have any limitations on what I think I could do or be.
I have crossed over on the backs of Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Madam C. J. Walker. Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.
I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk.
The only courage you will need is the courage to live the life you are meant to.
I know for sure that appreciating whatever shows up for you in life changes your personal vibration. You radiate and generate more goodness for yourself when you're aware of all you have and not focusing on your have-nots.
What you're thinking, what you're saying, what you're doing, is having an impact on you and the people around you
Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education.
Public libraries are the sole community centers left in America. The degree to which a branch of the local library is connected to the larger culture is a reflection of the degree to which the community itself is connected to the larger culture.
It's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether or not our work fulfills us. Being a teacher is meaningful.
Over the past five years, I've met several presidents, several secretaries of education ... and there is no plan. If you want to save your children, you're going to have to do it yourself. It's just us.
The results showed that Joe Mokoena and I had made history. For the first time in the history of education in South Africa, two African students had passed the JC with a First Class degree, regarded as a rare achievement for any student.
Education no longer has a humanist end or any value in itself; it has only one goal, to create technicians.
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