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Too Small – Monroe Journal – March 30, 2023

Too Small – Monroe Journal – March 30, 2023

by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Apr 3, 2023 | Uncategorized

“If I had listened to all the people who told me you are too small to play basketball, I wouldn’t be in the NBA today. Always believe.”    Muggsy Bogues 1980 – Dunbar High School – Baltimore, Maryland: Muggsy Bogues was shooting basketball in the school gym when an...
Courage Under Fire – Monroe Journal – July 7 , 2022

Courage Under Fire – Monroe Journal – July 7 , 2022

by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Jul 25, 2022 | Uncategorized

“There’s nothing wrong with being afraid. True courage is being afraid and going ahead and doing your job anyhow. Courage is the resistance of fear, the mastery of fear – not the absence of fear.”                                Norman Schwarzkopf April 1993 –...
The Reluctant Artist – Monroe Journal – April 4, 2019

The Reluctant Artist – Monroe Journal – April 4, 2019

by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | May 23, 2022 | Uncategorized

Don’t listen to those who say, “It’s not done that way.” Maybe it’s not, but maybe you’ll do it anyway. Don’t listen to those who say, “You’re taking too big a chance.” Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out today.       ...
Eye of the Storm – Monroe Journal – April 21, 2022

Eye of the Storm – Monroe Journal – April 21, 2022

by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | May 6, 2022 | Chasing Your Dream, Finding Hope, Uncategorized

“My friend, at one point or another, the sky will darken, the winds will rage and we will find ourselves in the eye of a storm. It is in the storms that God does his finest work, for in the storms he has our keenest attention.   Max Lucado 2014 – Boise, Idaho: The...
Moses the Conductor – Monroe Journal – March 15, 2022

Moses the Conductor – Monroe Journal – March 15, 2022

by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Mar 28, 2022 | Courage Under Fire, Iron-willed, Uncategorized

“Harriet Tubman reveled in defying men, defying governments, defying slavery and defying slave catchers who put a $40,000 bounty on her head. This Black woman who stood five feet tall was utterly and completely fearless.”                              ...
There She Is – Monroe Journal – September 2, 2021

There She Is – Monroe Journal – September 2, 2021

by peteblack4ua@gmail.com | Sep 6, 2021 | Adversity, Chasing Your Dream, Limitless Possibilities, Uncategorized

1964 – Ackerman, Mississippi: Seventeen-year-old Cheryl Prewitt told her father she was thinking about entering the Miss Choctaw County pageant. “No daughter of mine is going to parade herself around on stage in front of a bunch of strangers in a beauty contest. I...
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