Mattie Dokes:
CLASS OF 1959
Cobb Avenue Junior High SchoolClass of 1959
Anniston, AL
Mattie's Story
Mattie is from Chicago, Illinois. Mattie's schools include Cobb Avenue Junior High School.
Music Mattie likes includes The Jacksons, Jessie Dixon, Whitney Houston. Books Mattie likes include The Black Church - Where Women Pray and Men Prey, The Rich and the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto. Movies Mattie likes include "Doctored" The Movie, The Longest Day (1962), Red Hook Summer. TV shows Mattie likes include RT, Hardball with Chris Matthews, Wisconsin Foodie.
One of Mattie's favorite quotes is:"“Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.”
To laugh is to risk appearing the fool.
To weep is to risk appearing sentimental...Expand for more
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To reach for another is to risk involvement.
To expose your ideas, your dreams, before a crowd is to risk their loss.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying.
To believe is to risk despair.
To try is to risk failure.
But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
The people who risk nothing, do nothing, have nothing, are nothing.
They may avoid suffering and sorrow, but they cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, live.
Chained by their attitudes they are slaves; they have forfeited their freedom.
Only a person who risks is free.
To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions. -Benjamin Franklin
The pessimist complains about the wind, the optimist expects it to change, and the realist adjust the sails.".
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