Zola

“Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate."

(Los Angeles Times, July 20, 2003)”
― Edward W. Said

“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”
― Zora Neale Hurston

“We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.”
― Archilochus

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room