In Coach Carter (movie) the "Coach" posed a question to the team,
"What do you fear the most or What do we fear the most?" In the end,
one player gave a full length answer in prose which suggested that it
was a quote from a book orm poem.  I would like to read the full text.
Thank you.

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 19 Jan 2005 14:39 PST

If this is the quote, I'll be glad to tell you the author's name, and
the book from which the quote came:

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is
that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our
darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be
brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not
to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the
world. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within
us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our
own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do
the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence
automatically liberates others."

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 19 Jan 2005 16:53 PST

If the quote which I mentioned above is not the one you're looking
for, it would be helpful if you could recall a few words of the quote
you want.

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Clarification of Question by aorrazip-ga on 20 Jan 2005 10:27 PST

The quote you found is the correct one I recall from the movie.  Who is author?
Thanks for the immediate response six minutes after I posted the question!!

Aorrazip

I haven't seen "Coach Carter" yet, but when you mentioned a speech
about fear, I immediately remembered this quote. However, I initially
thought that Nelson Mandela was the source. The quote was read by
Mandela at his inauguration in 1994, but he was not the original
author. The quote was written by Marianne Williamson. It comes from
her book, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course
in Miracles."

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is
that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our
darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be
brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not
to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the
world. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within
us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our
own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do
the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence
automatically liberates others."

Elise.com: Marianne Williamson
http://www.elise.com/quotes/quotes/ourfear.htm

"Within minutes of taking over the varsity-coaching gig at run-down,
flunky-ridden Richmond High, sporting-goods entrepreneur Ken Carter
(Samuel L. Jackson) uses nonlethal force to subdue a violently defiant
player (Rick Gonzales from 'Old School'). Later, reformed and devoted
to Carter, that very same player looks deep into his coach?s eyes and
softly, movingly recites the Marianne Williamson poem 'Our Greatest
Fear,' just like Nelson Mandela during his 1994 inauguration speech."

KTVL News 10: ?Coach Carter? no slam-dunk.
http://www.ktvl.com/engine.pl?station=ktvl&id=216&template=movie_full.shtml&db=fbi

In case you are interested in reading Marianne Williamson's book in
its entirety, it's still in print:

Amazon.com: A Return to Love
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060927488

These were the Google search strings that led me to the quote:

Google Web Search: "coach carter" fear mandela
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22coach+carter%22+fear+mandela

Google Web Search: fear "marianne williamson"
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=fear+%22marianne+williamson%22

I hope this is helpful. If anything is unclear or incomplete, please
request clarification; I'll be glad to offer further assistance before
you rate my answer.

Best regards,
pinkfreud

Within 6 minutes you had what I was looking for (the literary address
of a quote I heard in a current movie) and you gave me its derivation
and named possible sources (from well in the past.
Great job.  Thank you very much.

Thank you for the five stars and the nice tip!

~pinkfreud

That is exactly the quote I was looking for. Right after the movie, I
had to have that quote. Thanks so much. You deserve 5 stars!!!!!

Haha.  Same here.  I just saw the movie less than an hour ago and I
wanted to find the quote.  Good job!