Devon

“So even before others have a chance to reject us, we have already rejected ourselves”
― Don Miguel Ruiz , The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

“Perhaps I might have been able to believe that there was any loving-kindness to be found in the haven I represented. But I had been in the pulpit too long and I had seen too many monstrous things. I don't refer merely to the glaring fact that the minister eventually acquires houses and Cadillacs while the faithful scrub floors and drop their quarters and dollars into the plate. I really mean that there was no love in the church. It was a mask for hatred and self-hatred and despair.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“But I should be false in the earliest sentiments of my soul, if I suppressed the opinion. I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence.”
― Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

“It is entirely unacceptable that I should have no voice in the political affairs of my own country, for I am not a ward of America; I am one of the first Americans to arrive on these shores.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time