Originality Search Report

Subject: Originality Assessment of Quote

Quote Examined

"No is not necessarily a mean word.

To the contrary, it can be a kind savior of the future:

time, safety, trust, embarrassment, disappointment, angst, and even life."

Author: Jelani K. Asantewa

Original Composition Date:  7- 25-2025

Search Performed By: ChatGPT (OpenAI)

Search Date: Sun, May 31, 2026  at 12:58 PM

Search Findings and Summary

I searched the web for the exact quote you provided, including searches using the full sentence enclosed in quotation marks and variants of the complete text.

Result: I did not find any web page containing the exact quote as written. The searches returned unrelated pages and documents, but none matched your wording. 

Quote searched:

"No is not necessarily a mean word. To the contrary, it can be a kind savior of the future: time, safety, trust, embarrassment, disappointment, angst, and even life."

A few important notes:

• An internet search can never prove that a phrase has never been written anywhere.

• It can only show whether the phrase appears in publicly indexed sources that search engines can find.

• Based on the search results available today, I found no evidence that this exact wording is already published on the web. 

Assessment

My assessment: the quote appears to be highly original, particularly the phrase "a kind savior of the future" and the specific sequence "time, safety, trust, embarrassment, disappointment, angst, and even life."

Conclusion

This report documents the results of an originality search conducted on the date indicated above and reflects the publicly available information located at that time.