Jake Cotto > Jake's Quotes

“So you must wake up every morning knowing that no promise is unbreakable, least of all the promise of waking up at all. This is not despair. These are the preferences of the universe itself: verbs over nouns, actions over states, struggle over hope.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“The creation of conditions by which an entire people who have lived in exploitation and illiteracy gains access to the highest levels of knowledge and creativity is one of the most beautiful achievements of a revolution.”
― Roberto Fernández Retamar, Caliban and Other Essays

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
― James Baldwin