Black Cowboys of Texas
2000 T.R. Fehrenbach Book Award Winner
“Sarah Massey’s volume is so well done that one need be neither black nor Texan to enjoy the book. Black Cowboys of Texas has the merit of expanding the horizons of two kinds of history, that of the cowboy as well as that of the African American.”
– The Bloomsbury Review
“I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good things, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being let me do it now and let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.”
– Ettiene De Grellet
Food for Thought:
Create a Mission Statement for your life.
– Anonymous
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched…but are felt in the heart.”
– Helen Keller
“May you live your life in such a way that when you die, even the undertaker is sorry.”
– Mark Twain
“Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.”
– Anonymous
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.”
– Alice Walker
“It is the mark of an educated mind to consider a thought, without accepting it.”
-Aristotle
“Self-determination has emancipated more people than Lincoln’s Proclamation, Congressional Legislation or formal Education ever will.”
– Lee N. Coffee, Jr.
“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”
-Maya Angelou.