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The Declaration

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The Declaration

DeAndre Oglesby

DeAndre Oglesby, Senior Editor

DeAndre Oglesby is a 17-year-old from Colonia New Jersey. He was born on December 7, 2000 at JFK Hospital. His nationality is African Bajan American (his mother is from the island of Barbados). Oglesby is the youngest of four children. He has two sisters and one brother. Currently, he is a senior at Colonia High School. Oglesby is quite active at school. Some of the clubs that he's in are newspaper club, LGBT club, SLAC, Anime, and many more. A few of his favorite hobbies are art, photography, poetry, writing, and YouTube. Oglesby identifies as nonbinary, and wants to change his name legally to Andie J. Lewis after high school. One of his biggest dreams is to open a school for children who are more gifted in the arts rather than academics.

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Andie’s Advice Episode 001: Anxiety

By: DeAndre Oglesby, Senior Editor
January 7, 2019
School supplies

School supplies you need to succeed

By: DeAndre Oglesby, Senior Editor
August 11, 2018
Quote of the Day

Quote of the Day

By: DeAndre Oglesby, Senior Editor
January 25, 2018
Kate Mosse, “We are who we are, because of those we choose to love and because of those who love us.”

Quote of the Day

By: DeAndre Oglesby, Senior Editor
January 24, 2018
Sergei Eisenstein says, "Language is much closer to film than painting is."

Quote of the Day

By: DeAndre Oglesby, Senior Editor
January 22, 2018
Michael Cunningham says. “You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”

Quote of the Day

By: DeAndre Oglesby, Senior Editor
January 18, 2018
Dennis Lehane says, “There's something ugly about the flawless.”

Quote of the Day

By: DeAndre Oglesby, Senior Editor
January 17, 2018
Elie Wiesel says “The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”

Quote of the Day

By: DeAndre Oglesby, Senior Editor
January 16, 2018
Anaïs Nin says, “We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”

Quote of the Day

By: DeAndre Oglesby, Senior Editor
January 12, 2018
Jim Rohn says, "Utilize any wind that blows to take you where you want to go."

Quote of the Day

By: DeAndre Oglesby, Senior Editor
January 11, 2018
Virginia Wolf says, “I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”

Quote of the Day

By: DeAndre Oglesby, Senior Editor
January 9, 2018
William Shakespeare says, “Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.”

Quote of the Day

By: DeAndre Oglesby, Senior Editor
January 8, 2018
Matthew Henry says, "After a storm comes a calm.

Quote of the Day

By: DeAndre Oglesby, Senior Editor
January 3, 2018
Les Brown says, "Life has no limitations, except the ones you make."

Quote of the Day

By: DeAndre Oglesby, Senior Editor
January 2, 2018
Bernard M. Baruch says, “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”

Quote of the Day

By: DeAndre Oglesby, Senior Editor
December 15, 2017
Is Christmas all about gifts?

[Photo] Is Christmas too materialistic?

By: Angelique Richardson, Senior News Editor
December 7, 2017
Indira Gandhi says, "You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist."

Quote of the Day

By: DeAndre Oglesby, Senior Editor
December 13, 2017
Mahatma Gandhi says, “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”

Quote of the Day

By: DeAndre Oglesby, Senior Editor
December 11, 2017
Nicholas Sparks says, “Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.”

Quote of the Day

By: DeAndre Oglesby, Senior Editor
December 8, 2017
Bil Keane says, “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”

Quote of the Day

By: DeAndre Oglesby, Senior Editor
December 6, 2017
Douglas Adams says, “I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”

Quote of the Day

By: DeAndre Oglesby, Senior Editor
December 5, 2017
Charles R. Swindoll said, "Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it."

Quote of the Day

By: DeAndre Oglesby, Senior Editor
December 4, 2017
Friedrich Nietzsche says, “Without music, life would be a mistake.”

Quote of the Day

By: DeAndre Oglesby, Senior Editor
December 1, 2017
Neil Gaiman, “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”

Quote of the Day

By: DeAndre Oglesby, Senior Editor
November 30, 2017
Frank Sinatra says, "The best revenge is massive success."

Quote of the Day

By: DeAndre Oglesby, Senior Editor
November 29, 2017
William W. Purkey says, "You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, love like you'll never be hurt, sing like there's nobody listening, and live like it's heaven on earth."

Quote of the Day

By: DeAndre Oglesby, Senior Editor
November 28, 2017
Mae West says, “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”

Quote of the Day

By: DeAndre Oglesby, Senior Editor
November 27, 2017
Joseph Campbell says, "We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us."

Quote of the Day

By: DeAndre Oglesby, Senior Editor
November 22, 2017
Al Green says, "I'm thankful for every moment."

Quote of the Day

By: DeAndre Oglesby, Senior Editor
November 21, 2017
Says Gary Vee, “Being cool has nothing to do with age; it has to do with how solid your identity is.”

Quote of the Day

By: DeAndre Oglesby, Senior Editor
November 20, 2017
Winston Churchill says, "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

Quote of the Day

By: DeAndre Oglesby, Senior Editor
November 17, 2017
Napoleon Hill says, "The starting point of all achievement is desire."

Quote of the Day

By: DeAndre Oglesby, Senior Editor
November 16, 2017
David Frost says, "Don't aim for success if you want it, just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally."

Quote of the Day

By: DeAndre Oglesby, Senior Editor
November 15, 2017
Neil Degrasse Tyson says, "There is no greater education than one that is self-driven."

Quote of the Day

By: DeAndre Oglesby, Senior Editor
November 14, 2017
Bob Hope says, "A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it."

Quote of the Day

By: DeAndre Oglesby, Senior Editor
November 13, 2017
Jim Rohn says, "Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment."

Quote of the Day

By: DeAndre Oglesby, Senior Editor
November 8, 2017
Henry Ford says, "Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success."

Quote of the Day

By: DeAndre Oglesby, Senior Editor
November 6, 2017
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