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“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“A lot of what we experience as strength comes from knowing what to do with weakness.”
― Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America

“I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal and whose feelings are all hurt about it. Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road

“If you have no intention of loving or being loved, the whole journey is pointless.”
― Kate DiCamillo