Julia

“As I ate she began the first of what we later called “my lessons in living.” She said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors. She encouraged me to listen carefully to what country people called mother wit. That in those homely sayings was couched the collective wisdom of generations.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“The soulless ones are not our greatest enemies. They were as deceived as We were. Our ultimate enemy is greed. For greed hardens hearts and minds and renders other people as less than human, as merely flesh.”
― Kyra Ann Dawkins, The We and the They: A Dystopian Oral History

“Darkness fueled by the fear of hunger and reverence of greed could choke the world. Or maybe more of us, the We, could exist. May We know the power of the choice to become many in one, fleshed and all.”
― Kyra Ann Dawkins, The We and the They: A Dystopian Oral History

“Can't Do is like Don't Care. Neither of them have a home.”
― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings