Rachel Chafin

“What can a soldier do when mercy is treason, and he is alone in it?”
― Laini Taylor, Days of Blood & Starlight

“Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.”
― Maya Angelou

“You can fail at what you don't want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.”
― Jim Carrey

“The opposite of poverty is not wealth. In too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice.”
― Bryan Stevenson