Michelle Balmeo

“A status not freely chosen or entered into by an individual or a group is necessarily one of oppression and the oppressed are by their nature (i.e., oppressed) forever in ferment and agitation against their condition and what they understand to be their oppressors. If not by overt rebellion or revolution, then in the thousand and one ways they will devise with and without consciousness to alter their condition”
― Lorraine Hansberry

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.”
― Lorraine Hansberry

“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
― Dorothy Parker