Jamie Colpean

“He felt misery, loneliness, a terrible need for love.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

“Bad luck is always in search of followers and it finds them mostly amongst the pessimists.”
― Lamine Pearlheart, The Sunrise's Commandment

“Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you smile, laugh, and feel loved.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

“When most folks think about the problems of growing up in the hood, they think about what it must feel like to be poor, or hungry, or to have your lights cut off. The struggle nobody talk about is what it feel like to be invisible, or to know in your heart the nobody cares. Mama didn’t want to be famous, she wanted to be seen.”
― Patricia Williams, Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat