Michele

“Girls were not named for flowers, as flowers died so quickly. Girls were named for deathless things - forms of light, forms of cloud, shapes of stars, that which appears and disappears like an island on the horizon.”
― Louise Erdrich, LaRose

“For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.”
― LeVar Burton

“We live in a world where joy and empathy and pleasure are all around us, there for the noticing.”
― Ira Glass

“First they came for the revolutionaries, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a revolutionary. Then they came for the intellectuals, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t an intellectual. Then they came for the tier ones, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a tier one. Then they came for the brilliants, and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a brilliant. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me.”
― Marcus Sakey, A Better World