Catherine Amos

“People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us. It's people who claim that they're good or anyway better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”
― Gregory Maguire, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“I will state that ambition without ability is the greatest evil in the world. It ever fathers monstrous crimes against mankind.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, The Life of Herod the Great

“Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.”
― Nic Stone, Dear Justyce

“I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception.”
― Gregory Maguire, The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz