Rohan Zhou-lee

“If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.”
― Claude McKay

“To know and have it all is about individuality because each one has the right not to live under the mercy of anyone with more power. So, for freedom and protection, one desires to know and have it all, but the questions remain.”
― Zaman Ali, EVIDENCE To Know and Have It All?

“We've all of us got to make up our minds to the sacrifice of some thing. I mean something more than just the ordinary sacrifices in life, not so much for the sake of the next generation as for the sake of some principle, for the sake of some immaterial quality like pride or intense self-respect or even a saving complacency; a spiritual tonic which the race needs perhaps just as much as the body might need iron or whatever it does need to give the proper kind of resistance. There are some things which an individual might want, but which he'd just have to give up forever for the sake of the more important whole.”
― Jessie Redmon Fauset, Plum Bun: A Novel Without A Moral

“Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.”
― Jean Toomer