Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the Glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us: it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
- Marianne Williamson

If you don't remember this quote, you didn't watch Coach Carter. This was beautifully delivered by Rick Gonzalez (look him up if you're into that kind of thing.) While the Richmond High Basketball team was taking their exams inside the gym. This was the defining point of the movie for me (right next to the drug-related shooting Rick's character's cousin violently dies from). I have been looking for this quote so I could have it framed and I can wear it around my neck. Yeah, it's like that. That's how much I embrace these words.

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