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How to build your confidence -- and spark it in others | Brittany Packnett Cunningham | TED

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So when I was a little girl,

a book sat on the coffee table in our living room,

just steps from our front door.

And the living room is a first impression.

Ours had white carpet

and a curio of my mother's most treasured collectibles.

That room represented the sacrifices of generations gone by

who, by poverty or by policy,

couldn't afford a curio of collectibles

let alone a middle class house to put them in.

That room had to stay perfect.

But I would risk messing up that perfect room every day

just to see that book.

On the cover sat a woman named Septima Clark.

She sat in perfect profile with her face raised to the sky.

She had perfect salt-and-pepper cornrows

platted down the sides of her head,

and pride and wisdom just emanated from her dark skin.

Septima Clark was an activist and an educator,

a woman after whom I'd eventually model my own career.

But more than all the words she ever spoke,


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