Jasmine Mcduffy

“Sometimes truths are what we run from, and sometimes they are what we seek.”
― R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

“In your heart, you will always be African, but in America you are a Black American. It is possible and desirable to be both.”
― Maria Nhambu, America's Daughter

“Love is not breathlessness; It is not excitement; It is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being “in love”, which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.”
― Louis de Bernieres, Corelli’s Mandolin

“Real firmness is good for every thing—Strut is good for nothing.”
― Alexander Hamilton