There are so many noises and pulls and competing demands in our lives …

Marian Wright Edelman
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There are so many noises and pulls and competing demands in our lives that many of us never find out who we are. Learn to be quiet enough to hear the sound of the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in other people. ✨ Marian Wright Edelman (2013). The Measure of our Success: A Letter to My Children and Yours, p.61, Beacon Press
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