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“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”
― Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings

“Death, where is thy string? It is here in my heart, and my mind, and my memories.”
― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

“The epitome of sophistication is utter simplicity.”
― Maya Angelou

“To the terror of the lone lake.

Yet that terror was not fright,
But a tremulous delight--
A feeling not the jewelled mine
Could teach or bribe me to define--
Nor Love-- although the Love were thine.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Lake