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Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality, 1890-2000

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No one rises above who he or she has been without first having fallen down. The best time – in fact, the only time – to make a real change in your life is in the moment of seeing the need for it. He who hesitates always gets lost in the hundred reasons why tomorrow is a better day to get started.” We in this time are truly BLESSED & whilst others follow on like brainless sheep having their minds blown over 50 shades of soft porn, I'd rather have my mind soaked over the 50 shades of equality & slavery;... When you have such a good workout, it clears everything up mentally, physically, and you just have a better day.” Simply one of the most important books a knowledge soaked individual could ever hope 2 read, cause if knowledge is power then this a book for KINGS & QUEENS;....

Every day is different, and some days are better than others, but no matter how challenging the day, I get up and live it.” Writing isn’t brain surgery, but it’s rare when someone adept at the latter is also so accomplished at the former. Searching for meaning and purpose in his life, Kalanithi pursued a doctorate in literature and had felt certain that he wouldn’t enter the field of medicine, in which his father and other members of his family excelled. “But I couldn’t let go of the question,” he writes, after realizing that his goals “didn’t quite fit in an English department.” “Where did biology, morality, literature and philosophy intersect?” So he decided to set aside his doctoral dissertation and belatedly prepare for medical school, which “would allow me a chance to find answers that are not in books, to find a different sort of sublime, to forge relationships with the suffering, and to keep following the question of what makes human life meaningful, even in the face of death and decay.” The author’s empathy undoubtedly made him an exceptional doctor, and the precision of his prose—as well as the moral purpose underscoring it—suggests that he could have written a good book on any subject he chose. Part of what makes this book so essential is the fact that it was written under a death sentence following the diagnosis that upended his life, just as he was preparing to end his residency and attract offers at the top of his profession. Kalanithi learned he might have 10 years to live or perhaps five. Should he return to neurosurgery (he could and did), or should he write (he also did)? Should he and his wife have a baby? They did, eight months before he died, which was less than two years after the original diagnosis. “The fact of death is unsettling,” he understates. “Yet there is no other way to live.”Those who don't know how to suffer are the worst off. There are times when the only correct thing we can do is to bear out troubles until a better day.” Quality of life means more than just consumption”: Two MIT economists urge that a smarter, more politically aware economics be brought to bear on social issues. Never give up believing that there is hope for better days to come. Bad things happen for a reason and sometimes it is to bring us to those better days.”

A neurosurgeon with a passion for literature tragically finds his perfect subject after his diagnosis of terminal lung cancer. This was a great book: extremely well researched, honest and informative. I enjoyed it until the last chapter where I feel the time period of 1970-2000 really did not receive the same extensive research as the previous time periods. And I avow my faith that we are marching towards better days. Humanity will not be cast down. “We are going on swinging bravely forward along the grand high road and already behind the distant mountains is the promise of the sun.” urn:lcp:betterdaycoming00adam:epub:cbf8898f-5883-410d-b27c-211d91bb23d3 Extramarc Columbia University Libraries Foldoutcount 0 Identifier betterdaycoming00adam Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t7rn48c77 Isbn 0670875929In times of great stress or adversity, it’s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.” When you come to the edge of all that you know, you must believe one of two things: There will be ground to stand. Or you will grow wings to fly.” Ninety nine percent of the time we have an opportunity to be grateful for something. We just don't notice it. We go through our days in a daze.”

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