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We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.
How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?
Negro life in America was a never-ending series of negotiations: when to fight and when to concede. -- Margot Lee Shetterly
The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers.
That day, all the Sneetches forgot about stars, and whether they had one, or not, upon thars. -- Dr. Seuss
It wasn’t northern agitators who pushed Negroes to question their country, as so many southern whites wanted to believe. It was their own pride, their patriotism, their deep and abiding belief in the possibility of democracy that inspired the Negro people. And why not? Who knew American democracy more intimately than the Negro people? They knew democracy’s every virtue, vice, and shortcoming, its voice and contour, by its profound and persistent absence in their lives. The failure to secure the blessings of democracy was the feature that most defined their existence in America. Every Sunday they made their way to their sanctuaries and fervently prayed to the Lord to send them a sign that democracy would come to them. -- Margot Lee Shetterly
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another. ― William James
If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever. ― Alfred Tennyson
Gender as it functions today is a grave injustice. I am angry. We should all be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. Now I saw that many, no, all men were capable of dying for one.
