Janet Richards

“Love has never been a popular movement. And no one's ever wanted, really, to be free. The world is held together, really it is held together, by the love and the passion of a very few people. Otherwise, of course, you can despair. Walk down the street of any city, any afternoon, and look around you. What you've got to remember is what you're looking at is also you. Everyone you're looking at is also you. You could be that person. You could be that monster, you could be that cop. And you have to decide, in yourself, not to be.”
― James Baldwin

“And he looked at her, full of gratitude and a sudden, wild conjecture: he had been real for her, she had watched him, and prayed for him during all those years when she, for him had been nothing but a shadow. And she was praying for him still; he would have her prayers to aid him all his life long--he saw this, now, in her face. She said nothing, and she did not smile, only looked at him with her grave kindness, now a little questioning, a little shy.”
― James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain

“To be listened to is healing,”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“Remember, God didn’t speak just to Isaiah, but to everyone, when he said, ‘Whom shall I send? Who will go for us?’ Isaiah said, ‘Here I am. Send me!”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water