April H

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“I don’t ever want to forget that resistance must be its own reward, since resistance, at least within the life span of the resistors, almost always fails.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy

“It may seem strange that people who have already obtained a position of power through violence, invest so much time into justifying their plunder with words. But even plunderers are human beings, whose violent ambitions must contend with the guilt that gnaws at them when they meet the eyes of their victims. And so a story must be told, one that raises a wall between themselves, and those they seek to throttle and rob.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Message

“Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic.”
― Leif Enger