You can go from swimming in the smallest pond to controlling the oceans like Poseidon, but if you lose touch with your core, you’re gonna find yourself adrift. “While it’s important to rise above your roots and transcend your circumstances, it is also key that no matter where life takes you, you must never get detached from those roots. If you let society tell it, none of them should have achieved what they did.” I’d learned that from Malcolm X to Method Man, from Louis Farrakhan to the Notorious B.I.G., so many of my heroes had grown up in circumstances as bad, if not worse, than mine. “With hip-hop and books empowering me, the excuse “I’m from this small-a*s town” simply wasn’t going to be a good enough reason for me not to make it. How are you going to make waves in a bigger pond when you haven’t even learned how to cause a ripple in the pond you’re in? When you stop complaining about where you are physically and start focusing on where you are mentally, that’s when you will start to transcend your circumstances.” “Geographical location doesn’t determine what kind of success you will have, but your psychological position always will. “Remember s*it is the best fertilizer it’s what helps the flowers grow.” PRINCIPLE 1 – It’s Not the Size of the Pond but the Hustle in the Fish Learn how to trust what I call “divine misdirection.” As long as you don’t compromise who you are, no matter how many pink slips you get, there’s always going to be something better out there for you. From getting let go from Taco Bell (by my own sister no less) to getting canned from Wendy Williams’s show to every single time I’ve been fired, a short time later I’ve always landed in a better position.

“As someone who has been fired countless times, I can promise you there are no “losses” in life, only lessons. I’ve come within inches-on more than one occasion-of fulfilling my father’s prediction for Darnell and all the other knuckleheads in our town: broke under a tree, dead in the ground, or rotting in jail.” Most Important Keywords, Sentences, Quotes: Introduction

PRINCIPLE 8 – Access Your Black Privilege.PRINCIPLE 7 – Give People the Credit They Deserve for Being Stupid.PRINCIPLE 4 – There Are No Losses, Only Lessons.PRINCIPLE 2 – PYP (Pick Your Passion, Poison, or Procrastination).PRINCIPLE 1 – It’s Not the Size of the Pond but the Hustle in the Fish.The book is divided into Charlamagne’s principles of life: From childhood to prison to getting fired multiple times and going back to live with his mother, the book doesn’t hold any punches. Black Privilege is an autobiography of Charlamagne and each chapter in the book covers a part of his life.

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