Bill Calhoun

“I love people. I love my family, my children . . . but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.”
― Pearl S. Buck

“I asked her who he was and she said, “He was a man ahead of his time.” She actually liked Malcolm X. She put him in nearly the same category as her other civil rights heroes, Paul Robeson, Jackie Robinson, Eleanor Roosevelt, A. Philip Randolph, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Kennedys—any Kennedy. When Malcolm X talked about “the white devil” Mommy simply felt those references didn’t apply to her.”
― James McBride, The Color of Water

“The past isn’t dead. It isn’t even past.”
― Jamie Raskin, Unthinkable: Think You'll Be Happy: Moving Through Grief with Grit, Grace, and Gratitude – A Memoir of Resilience

“I tell you, there are times when words are so glad to be set free they laugh out loud and prance across their tablets and inside their scrolls.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, The Book of Longings