Don't be like me, sitting in the parking lot of the testing center after my exam, balling my eyes out, after frantically looking up the answers to all the questions that I could remember and seeing that all of them were WRONG.

I tried very hard to make things better. But what I learned is, as much as I love my husband, and as desperately as I want to have a happy marriage and a successful career, those desires cannot come before having a healthy relationship with God.

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That is why when we do things, like get accepted into PT school, make straight A's, and accept promotions in important leadership roles, we caption the moments with "black excellence". It doesn't mean that we are more excellent than anyone who isn't black. It just means that we are, and always have been capable of being excellent in spite of being reared in a society that is determined to convince us otherwise.