The main thing is the YOU beneath the clothes and skin–the ability to do, the will to conquer, the determination to understand and know this great, wonderful, curious world….Enjoy what is and do not pine for what is not…Take yourself in hand and master yourself. Make yourself do unpleasant things, so as to gain the upper hand of your soul.
W.E.B. Du Bois, Fisk University 1888, to his fourteen year old daughter, Yolande
