Brant Johnson

“Act as if it was, and it will be.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“A brain was only capable of what it could conceive, and it couldn't conceive what it had never experienced”
― Graham Greene, Brighton Rock

“It is not that I dwell on the past. But the past shapes the way we are in the present and the way we will become what we are destined to become. It is only because I have finally understood the past, accepted it, embraced it, that I can fully live in the moment. And hardly a moment goes by when I don’t think about Emmett, and the lessons a son can teach a mother.”
― Mamie Till-Mobley, Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime that Changed America

“That is, after all, how it works. We don’t come here with hatred in our hearts. We have to be taught to feel that way. We have to want to be that way, to please the people who teach us to want to be like them. Strange, to think that people might learn to hate as a way of getting some approval, some acceptance, some love. I thought about all that”
― Mamie Till-Mobley, Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime that Changed America