Lauren Mocny-Branum

“I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. It
always made me want to do just the opposite.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit

“Words are things. You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial pejoratives and sexual pejoratives and all that ignorance. Don’t do that. Some day we’ll be able to measure the power of words. I think they are things. They get on the walls. They get in your wallpaper. They get in your rugs, in your upholstery, and your clothes, and finally in to you.”
― Maya Angelou

“Godhood is just like girlhood: a begging to be believed”
― Kristin Chang

“No matter how foreign and lonely the world outside, the books always reminded me of home.”
― William Kamkwamba, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope