Tariq Touré

Writer + Artist + Servant at @BrokenEnglishCo #HBCUTop30Under30 #MPower100 #BaltimoreMagBestof2016

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"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." - MLK #BeTheLight

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"It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully." - Seneca The Younger #BeTheLight

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When I was a child I used to walk around with a gift hidden in my pocket... #BeTheLight

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"No man was ever wise by chance" - Seneca #BeTheLight (at Baltimore, Maryland)

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3.11 Miles I quit about 3 times this morning and started walking. Each time my body began whispering the sweet whispers we know too well, "You've already done enough. Nobody's ev... (Link In Bio) #RUN4Freedom #BeTheLight

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My complete thoughts on this new year. #HappyNewYear #BeTheLight (at Baltimore, Maryland)

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2.75 Miles Starting anything is an ugly process. The first few attempts make or break you. This isn't the first time I've started something. What I've realized to be pretty effective in starting is to have someone close who's further down the road than you at the goal you wish to be at. We can use that person as a healthy measuring... (Link in Bio for more) #RUN4Freedom (at Baltimore, Maryland)

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We become the ideas we entertain the most. #BeTheLight

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Continuing prayers for #Aleppo. May Allah have mercy on their souls. #BeTheLight

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The Prophet (saw) advised to: “Take benefit of five before five: Your youth before your old age, your health before your sickness, your wealth before your poverty, your free time before you are preoccupied, and your life before your death” (Narrated by Ibn Abbas) #BeTheLight

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We all have a purpose. Any deviation from it is suicide. #BeTheLight (at Gwynn Oak, Maryland)

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"1. Give yourself a definite goal. 2. Quit running yourself down. 3. Stop thinking of all the reasons you cannot be successful and instead, think of all the reasons why you can. 4. Trace your attitudes back through your childhood and try to discover where you first got the idea you couldn't be successful - if that's the way you've been thinking. 5. Change the attitude you have of yourself by writing out the description of the person you'd like to be. 6. Act the part of the successful person you have decided to become." - E. N. #StayTuned