Joy ✨

“Stand. Stand to your feet. We rise. That’s what we do. No matter the pressure or circumstance, don’t matter how high the tide of our troubles get, we rise above it. That’s resilience. You may not believe that you are like me in any other way but that. Because you’re still here. And I’m still here with you. So stand up.”
― Cebo Campbell, Sky Full of Elephants

“This is the gift of Harlem—the dress, the music, the language. It isn’t possible to live here and not begin to breathe and bleed this place.”
― Victoria Christopher Murray, Harlem Rhapsody

“That means you’ve got what it takes, Frank. We all went through it. Nurses back in the world are second-class citizens. And, big surprise—they’re mostly women. Men keep us in boxes, make us wear starched virgin white, and tell us that docs are gods. And the worst part is, we believe them.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Women

“At that moment the power of reading made itself clear and real to me. If I could see the words, then no one could control them or what I got from them. They couldn’t even know if I was merely seeing them or reading them, sounding them out or comprehending them. It was a completely private affair and completely free and, therefore, completely subversive.”
― Percival Everett, James