Daryl Northern

“I, too, sing America.

I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.

Tomorrow,
I'll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody'll dare
Say to me,
"Eat in the kitchen,"
Then.

Besides,
They'll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed--

I, too, am America.”
― Langston Hughes

“If not us, then who?
If not now, then when?”
― John Lewis

“The freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose.”
― Mercedes Lackey, Sacred Ground

“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear”
― Aung San Suu Kyi