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“All literature is protest.”
― Richard Wright

“Every sentence, every word, was new to them and they listened to what he said like bright-eyed ravens, trembling in their eagerness to catch & interpret every sound in the universe.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

“Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books...”
― Richard Wright, Black Boy

“I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.”
― Audre Lorde

“The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.”
― Audre Lorde

“The erotic is a measure between the beginnings of our sense of self and the chaos of our strongest feelings. ”
― Audre Lorde

“Our individual consciousnesses were sieves of the divine. We could only know what our minds could encompass safely.”
― Louise Erdrich, The Plague of Doves

“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”
― Angela Y. Davis

“As a culture worker who belongs to an oppressed people my job is to make revolution irresistible.”
― Toni Cade Bambara, Conversations with Toni Cade Bambara

“Many of my movies have strong female leads- brave, self-sufficient girls that don't think twice about fighting for what they believe with all their heart. They'll need a friend, or a supporter, but never a savior. Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.”
― Hayao Miyazaki

“I would like to make a film to tell children "it's good to be alive".”
― Hayao Miyazaki

“The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.”
― Hayao Miyazaki

“The villains are all parts of me. For years I've been wondering what it would be like if all those negative elements were forced onto the main character's side. I can understand a character with that kind of anger.”
― Hayao Miyazaki

“Logic is a seductive excuse for setting low expectations.”
― Stacey Abrams, Minority Leader: How to Lead from the Outside and Make Real Change

“What if pain - like love - is just a place brave people visit?”
― Glennon Doyle Melton, Love Warrior

“I ought to tell you I'm probably your cousin.”
― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“Because you are alive, everything is possible.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ

“Our own life has to be our message.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh , The World We Have: A Buddhist Approach to Peace and Ecology

“Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.”
― Joan Didion, On Self-Respect

“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”
― Simone Weil

“Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.”
― Simone Weil

“The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love--whether we call it friendship or family or romance--is the work of mirroring each other's light. Gentle work. Steadfast work. Life-saving work in those moments when shame and sorrow occlude our own light from view, but there is still a clear-eyed loving person to beam it back. In our best moments, we are that person for another.”
― James Baldwin, Nothing Personal