Chandra Powers Wersch

“His mind was indeed my library, and whenever it was opened to me, I entered bliss.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Villette

“History is not the past. It is the present. We carry our history with us. We are our history. If we pretend otherwise, we are literally criminals.

I attest to this: the world is not white; it never was white, cannot be white. White is a metaphor for power, and that is simply a way of describing Chase Manhattan Bank.”
― James Baldwin, I Am Not Your Negro

“I was never aware of any other option but to question everything.”
― Noam Chomsky

“It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.”
― James Baldwin