Robbin Stokes

“to live without forgiveness was a kind of death with breathing and movement.”
― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“The Great Migration would not end until the 1970s, when the South began finally to change—the whites-only signs came down, the all-white schools opened up, and everyone could vote. By then nearly half of all black Americans—some forty-seven percent—would be living outside the South, compared to ten percent when the Migration began.”
― Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

“Sometimes we set off down a road thinkin’ we’re goin’ one place and we end up another. But that’s okay. The important thing is to start.”
― Ruta Sepetys, Out of the Easy