Lisa

“Love overcomes bitterness,
overpowers sorrow,
overwhelms anger,
and overthrows hatred.

Medicine heals the body,
faith heals the heart,
wisdom heals the mind,
and love heals the soul.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“I’m not supposed to like myself, and I’m certainly not supposed to think that I should matter. The world has spent a lot of time telling me that, and in the past thirty or so years, I often listened, because we all listen. The world is mostly full of fine facts and good lessons, but some of those facts and lessons were built to keep you down.”
― Guy Branum, My Life as a Goddess: A Memoir through (Un) Popular Culture

“It’s no disgrace to be black, but it’s often very inconvenient.”
― James Weldon Johnson, The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man

“November at its best - with a sort of delightful menace in the air.”
― Anne Bosworth Greene