Darby Long

“To accept one's past - one's history - is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“Love is patient and kind. It's never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is never rude or selfish. It does not take offence and is not resentful”
― Anonymous, Bible

“It is well known, that, in all questions submitted to the understanding, prejudice is destructive of sound judgment, and perverts all operations of the intellectual faculties: it is no less contrary to good taste; nor has it less influence to corrupt our sentiment of beauty. It belongs to good sense to check its influence in both cases.”
― David Hume, Of the Standard of Taste

“Did I ever think I might have been wrong? Yes, sometimes and briefly. But never because of the supposed majority against me.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian