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“Reality opens the door, truth walks in.
Truth opens the door, knowledge walks in.
Knowledge opens the door, wisdom walks in.
Wisdom opens the door, God walks in.
God opens the door, enlightenment walks in.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Democracies die more often through the ballot box than at gunpoint.”
― Heather Cox Richardson, Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

“Writing is the only action where I feel like an active, ethical person.”
― Rowan Ricardo Phillips

“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