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“Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.”
― Lorraine Hansberry

“I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

“This earth, burnished by hearing the name, is so certain of love,
that the sky bends unceasingly down, to greet its own light.”
― Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, The Lightning Should Have Fallen on Ghalib: Selected Poems

“I am an invisible man. No I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allen Poe: Nor am I one of your Hollywood movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids, and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, simply because people refuse to see me.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“None but ourselves can free our minds.”
― Bob Marley