Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.

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Soldiers live. He dies and not you, and you feel guilty, because you're glad he died, and not you. Soldiers live, and wonder why. ― Glen Cook

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Where there is so much racket, there must be something out of kilter ― Sojourner Truth

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I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.

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If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them. ― Soujourner Truth

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The reward of a thing well done is having done it. ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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At the end of the day your ability to connect with your readers comes down to how you make them feel. ― Benjamin J. Carey

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If it is not a fit place for women, it is unfit for men to be there. ― Sojourner Truth

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I didn’t want to be an artist in the same place I worked. You could always have people that might feel like you would do something more for yourself. – DJ Khaled

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Children, who made your skin white? Was it not God? Who made mine black? Was it not the same God? Am I to blame, therefore, because my skin is black?...Does not God love coloured children as well as white children? And did not the same Saviour die to save the one as well as the other? ― Sojourner Truth

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