Never limit yourself

Updated: Nov 20, 2021

Your name, your ethnicity, your race and gender and sexuality shall not be a blockade to your success. The discrimination you face and the racism shouldn't shut the doors of hope for you. The passion and hard work you put into what you love will always be worth it.

To the people that say who cares what race or gender or sexuality someone is, and to this I say, think about the kids. Think about the kids that never imagined seeing someone like them in the places that they dreamed of being.

We have the possibility to be whatever we want and history shows this. The first Black- the first Native - the first woman- the first gay- the first deaf-. Representation matters no matter what anyone says.

The poet Phillis Wheatley published her book Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral in 1773. Wheatley was not only a slave but also the first African American to publish a book, and the first to achieve an international reputation as a writer.

Susie King Taylor

first black teacher at an all white school. army nurse during the american civil war, author (first African American woman to publish a memoir of her wartime)

https://www.uopeople.edu/blog/who-was-the-first-black-teacher-the-system-revolution/

Mary W. Jackson NASA's First Female African American Engineer

black people created country music but continue to be excluded from the charts of genres other than hip hop.

Ruby Bridges

Ruby Nell Bridges Hall (born September 8, 1954) is an American civil rights activist. She was the first African-American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960.