Moniqa

“An empress does not concern herself with the antics of fools”
― Gabrielle Union, We're Going to Need More Wine

“it is the responsibility of free men to trust and celebrate what is constant—birth, struggle, and death are constant, and so is love, though we may not always think so—and to apprehend the nature of change, to be able and willing to change.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“They basked in the righteousness of the poor and the exclusiveness of the downtrodden. Let the whitefolks have their money and power and segregation and sarcasm and big houses and schools and lawns like carpets, and books, and mostly--mostly--let them have their whiteness. It was better to be meek and lowly, spat upon and abused for this little time than to spend eternity frying in the fires of hell. No one would have admitted that the Christian and charitable people were happy to think of their oppressors' turning forever on the Devil's spit over the flames of fire and brimstone.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”
― Maya Angelou