Every time a young girl comes in and asks me for advice, if you start your conversation with, 'How hard is it as a black woman,' or, 'How hard is it as a woman,' I turn you around. Because I cannot - we cannot look at the roadblocks and see the road at the same time.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of focusing on opportunities rather than obstacles faced by young women, especially in the context of race and gender.
Tamron Hall's quote highlights the need for young women to approach life with a mindset that prioritizes possibilities over challenges. By advising against starting conversations with a focus on hardships, she encourages empowerment and resilience, suggesting that recognizing roadblocks can hinder one's ability to see and pursue potential paths to success.
In practice
During a mentorship program for young women, I shared Tamron Hall's quote to inspire them to focus on their strengths.
My life now centered around sleepless nights and stand-bys, dodging the Brits and calming nerves to go out on operations. But the people stood by us. The people not only opened the doors of their homes to lend us a hand, but they opened their hearts to us. I learned that without the people, we could not survive and I knew that I owed them everything.
If we despond, public confidence is destroyed, the people will no longer yield their support to a hopeless contest, and American liberty is no more. Through the darkness which shrouds our prospects, the ark of safety is visible. Despondency becomes not the dignity of our cause, nor the character of those who are its supporters.
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
We are going by you without fighting if you will let us, but we are going by you anyhow!
Fear has its use, but cowardice has none. I may not put my finger into the jaws of a snake, but the very sight of the snake need not strike terror into me.
Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own.
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