February 26  

You've been tricked!  You've been had!  Hoodwinked!  Bamboozled!

-El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X)

Somebody sure pulled a fast one on you!  Somebody, somewhere tricked you into believing there were certain things you could not do because of who you were.  Someone else told you that only certain people could do or be the very thing you wanted to be.  And you were not one of those people.  With a sleight-of-hand manipulation of facts, someone made you think you didn't have what it takes, so they took it.  Somebody told you that you were slow, or lazy; not good enough; or crazy.  And you believed that?  They tricked you into believing what they wanted you to believe.  They knew who you were and they knew you had no idea.  They pulled the wool over your eyes.  Ran a game on you and you fell for it!  The truth is they downright, open-mouthed, bare-faced told you a lie!  Now what are you going to do?

  --  Iyanla Vanzant 

I am not falling for the same old tricks again.

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