Diane M.

“Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment meted out by the older generation (which had itself confessed to the same crime short years before). The command to grow up at once was more bearable than the faceless horror of wavering purpose, which was youth.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“A nation's strength ultimately consist in what it can do on its own and not in what it can borrow from other.”
― Indira Gandhi, Indira Gandhi on herself and her times: Her last and only autobiographical interview with Nemai Sadhan Bose

“What do you want?” I asked, trying to ignore him.

“Probably something that you want.”

I rolled my eyes at the emphasis of the word you.

“And what would I want?” I asked.

“To go back to Africa. If you want to live in America as if it's Africa, then you might as well go back to Africa.”

“Go BACK?” I asked, emphasizing my incredulity at the sound of the word back.

“Isn’t that where you came from?”

“I mean… I could see it in my ancestry… my parents were of African decency… but I was born in America, and I am legally an American citizen.”
― Lucy Carter, The Reformation

“The meek may one day inherit the earth, but not the headlines.”
― Indira Gandhi