Life & Wisdom Quote by Anthony J. D'Angelo

A half-finished sentence that dares you to finish it yourself, Anthony J. D'Angelo's line is motivational minimalism with teeth. "If you believe that discrimination exists, it will" reads like a self-help koan, but the mechanism is sharper: it shifts the locus of power from institutions to perception. The grammar performs the thesis. By withholding the final verb phrase ("it will what?"), the quote invites the reader to supply "persist", "win", "control you", or "hurt you" - revealing as much about the reader's worldview as about discrimination itself.

The intent is likely to encourage agency: refuse the story, and you weaken its hold on your life. In the late-20th-century American optimism that shaped a lot of motivational writing, belief is treated as a lever that moves reality. Subtext: attention is fuel; expectation becomes destiny; mindset is a strategy.

But the line courts a dangerous slippage between psychological insight and social denial. As rhetoric, it flirts with implying that discrimination is partly conjured by the discriminated against - a neat fit for a culture that prefers personal responsibility narratives over messy structural accounting. It can be empowering in the narrow sense (don't let bias define your self-concept) while also being easily weaponized (if you see discrimination, you're the problem).

That's why it "works": it's portable. It can sit on a poster in a corporate diversity seminar or in a comment thread dismissing someone's lived experience. The ambiguity is the point; the politics are in the blank.