Landa

“I am,” I stated. “We are not equals. I am not your sister. I’m not your daughter nor your mother. I am my own woman and yes, I am raised to think that I am better than everybody. Not just you and I believe it. Who are you to tell me I’m not? Why do you feel it is your position to tell me I’m not and why are you so threatened by how I feel about myself?”
― Desiree ., The Perfect Sister 2

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. ~ Edith Wharton”
― Peter Begley, LIVE - Selected Quotations

“The unspoken black girl language where you could read the rest of my words in my facial expressions while letting out a single word to sum it up.”
― Granger ., The Mortal Affairs