When you have hope, you have a new beginning. I think of my own life and how just having an ounce of hope has helped me accomplish many new things and given me the chance to embark on new opportunities. I have always been inspired by visual artist Jacob Lawrence's paintings. These paintings were of African Americans leaving the Jim Crow South migrating to the city in hopes of finding better job opportunities and better housing. These brave individuals took everything they had in order to travel to their new beginnings. Cities like Chicago, Detroit, Washington, D.C. and New York are now homes to African American mom and pop shops like barbershops, salons, cleaners, and restaurants. Some of these institutions would not have been possible without someone having hope and dreaming in something greater than himself. Friends, remember that your hopes embody possibilities...
The Great Migration by Jacob Lawrence
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