Nicole Diamond

“At the men's end of the table the talk grew more and more animated. The colonel told them that the declaration of war had already appeared in Petersburg and that a copy, which he had himself seen, had that day been forwarded by courier to the commander in chief.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

“…she endeavoured to forget what she could not overlook…”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“In the 1990s, the Clinton administration experimented with a program called Moving to Opportunity for Fair Housing, which gave poor families in public housing vouchers to move to safer, middle-income neighborhoods where their children were surrounded every day by evidence that life can be better. Twenty years later, the children of those families have grown up to earn higher incomes and attend college at higher rates than their peers who stayed behind. And”
― Hillary Rodham Clinton, What Happened

“Beyond my failings as a racist, I knew I was not wanted in the South. When people are engaged in something they are not proud of, they do not welcome witnesses.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley: In Search of America