Not All Quotes

“He endured and even retaliated a handful of times until his wife gave birth to twin daughters. He became afraid for his girls. Parenthood has a funny way of making even the most apathetic person want to change the world for the better,”
― Marie Mistry, Traitor Witch

“We knew that not all white people were bad, and that there were black people who did wrong, too. Some white people wanted to help us, & in their heart meant us no harm, but how were we to know who they were? The way Elijah Muhammad put it was like this, 'What if there were 1,000 rattlesnakes outside your door, & maybe 100 of them wouldn't bite you, didn't mean you any harm, but they all looked alike? So you couldn't tell the mean ones from from the nice ones. What should you do? Should you open the door & hope that the 100 snakes that wouldn't harm you would come together & form a shield protecting you from the other 900 snakes that want to harm you? Or should you close the door & stay safe?”
― Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey