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“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

“I'm not the color of my skin. I'm a story. One with a past and a future unwritten.”
― Heidi W. Durrow, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

“The bottle is where everything sad or mean or confusing can go. And the blues--it's like that bottle. But in the bottle there's a seed that you let grow. Even in the bottle it can grow big and green. It's full of all those feelings that are in there, but beautiful and growing too.”
― Heidi W. Durrow, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

“Tina: Oh, keep him? We don't keep them! Mr. Scamander, do you know anything about the wizarding community in America?

Newt: I do know a few things, actually. I know you have rather backwards laws about relations with non-magic people. That you're not meant to befriend them, that you can't marry them, which seems mildly absurd to me.”
― J.K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay

“My philosophy is that worrying means you suffer twice.”
― J.K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay

“Newt: I think you'll find the best wizarding school in the world is Hogwarts!

Queenie: HOGWASH.”
― J.K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay

“Newt Scamander: My philosophy is that worrying means you suffer twice.”
― J.K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay

“Jacob: Newt . . . I don't think I'm dreaming.

Newt: What gave it away?

Jacob: I ain't got the brains to make this up.”
― J.K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay

“See, they're currently in alien terrain, surrounded by millions of the most vicious creatures on the planet. Humans. - Newt Scamander”
― J.K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”
― Jason Reynolds, All American Boys

“Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“however,”
― Phoebe Robinson, You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain

“however, when you are a person of color in this country, you learn early on that you cannot fall apart every time something racially charged happens to you. You just have to be resilient or you won’t survive”
― Phoebe Robinson, You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain

“. And maybe they don’t because they’re under the misapprehension that because I talk about race a lot, that I must love talking about it. I don’t. And I’ll let you in on a little secret about what other black people rarely say: Explaining your life to a world that doesn’t care to listen is often more draining than living in it.”
― Phoebe Robinson, You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain

“4. White People Who Want There to Be a White History Month You. Seriously. Need. To. Do. Better. Like, better yourself. Read a book.”
― Phoebe Robinson, You Can't Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain

“We tell people to follow their dreams, but you can only dream of what you can imagine, and, depending on where you come from, your imagination can be quite limited.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“People love to say, “Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll eat for a lifetime.” What they don’t say is, “And it would be nice if you gave him a fishing rod.” That’s the part of the analogy that’s missing.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“Language, even more than color, defines who you are to people.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“Being chosen is the greatest gift you can give to another human being.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“Relationships are built in the silences. You spend time with people, you observe them and interact with them, and you come to know them—and that is what apartheid stole from us: time.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“The name Hitler does not offend a black South African because Hitler is not the worst thing a black South African can imagine. Every country thinks their history is the most important, and that’s especially true in the West. But if black South Africans could go back in time and kill one person, Cecil Rhodes would come up before Hitler. If people in the Congo could go back in time and kill one person, Belgium’s King Leopold would come way before Hitler. If Native Americans could go back in time and kill one person, it would probably be Christopher Columbus or Andrew Jackson. I”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“The first thing I learned about having money was that it gives you choices. People don’t want to be rich. They want to be able to choose. The richer you are, the more choices you have. That is the freedom of money.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“My mom did what school didn't. She taught me how to think.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“But the real world doesn't go away. Racism exists. People are getting hurt. And just because it's not happening to you, doesn't mean it's not happening. And at some point you have to choose; black or white, pick a side. You can try to hide from it. You can say, oh I don't take sides, but at some point, life will force you to pick a side.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“A dog is a great thing for a kid to have. It's like a bicycle but with emotions.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“Comfort can be dangerous. Comfort provides a floor but also a ceiling.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“You want to live in a world where someone is good or bad. Where you either hate them or love them. But that's not how people are.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

“I became a chameleon. My color didn't change, but I could change your perception of my color. If you spoke Zulu, I replied to you in Zulu. If you spoke to me in Tswana, I replied to you in Tswana. Maybe I didn't look like you, but if I spoke like you, I was you.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood