Motivational Quote by Hannah Salwen, The Power of Half: One Family's Decision to Stop Taking and Start Giving Back — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Never let them win, the takers, because they won’t stop. If you love it, you fucking take it, fight for it, never let it out of your sight.”

“Africans have always felt comfortable in having their skin being kissed by the Sun. Simply because the African skin, full of cocoa and butter, neither cracks nor dies under the warm kiss of the Sun.”

“Taking action toward your future will require seasons of extreme growth, hard decisions, and fears that need to be conquered.”

“It doesn't matter if a million people tell you what you can't do, or if ten million tell you no. If you get one yes from God that's all you need.”

“I love children so much; I regret not writing some children's books too.”

“(...) it was in this extreme poverty that I felt my energy return and that I said to myself, in any event I’ll recover from it, I’ll pick up my pencil that I put down in my great discouragement and I’ll get back to drawing, and from then on, it seems to me, everything has changed for me, and now I’m on my way and my pencil has become somewhat obedient and seems to become more so day by day. It was poverty, too long and too severe, that had discouraged me to the point where I could no longer do anything.”