Daniel

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“Maybe that's what they're afraid of. Maybe they don't want these children to make up their own minds. Maybe if they did that, the world would change.”
― Walter Mosley, Futureland

“Curiosity is the beginning and end of secrets.”
― Mario Bencastro, The Tree of Life: Stories of Civil War

“The resignation of its inhabitants encouraged me to relax. They showed me a contentment based on the belief that nothing more was coming to them, although a great deal more was due. Their decision to be satisfied with life's inequities was a lesson for me.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings