Quote of the Day: Howard Thurman on Doing What You Love

You can read this quote from Howard Thurman, which appeared in Gil Bailie’s Violence Unveiled (1995), in Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations. Read more about Thurman here. Suggested Reading A Peek at Mariah Carey’s Fly Real Estate Portfolio Chris Brown’s and Donny Hathaway Both Sang ‘This Christmas.’ Only One Is Worth Playing Atlanta Nightlife Insiders Respond to 21 Savage’s Claim That…

You can read this quote from Howard Thurman, which appeared in Gil Bailie’s Violence Unveiled (1995), in Bartlett’s Familiar Black Quotations. Read more about Thurman here.

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Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and founding director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is also the editor-in-chief of The Root. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.

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