Cate

“I accept this award today with an abiding faith in America and an audacious faith in the future of mankind. I refuse to accept despair as the final response to the ambiguities of history. I refuse to accept the idea that the "isness" of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal "oughtness" that forever confronts him. I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsom and jetsom in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence.”
― Andrei Lankov

“Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.”
― Pat Conroy, My Reading Life

“Dementia: Is it more painful to forget, or to be forgotten?”
― Joyce Rachelle