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“Ruby knew then that a lie could only control a person if they believed it.”
― Cynthia Bond, Ruby

“Ain’t nobody ever gone answer you cries. You can fill a well with tears, and all you gonna get is drowned. You sit there long enough and the crazy man find you. You weep too long, your heart ache so, the flesh slip off your bones and your soul got to find a new home. You wait on answers ’til the scaredy-cat curl up in your belly and use your liver for a pin cushion. And that’s just how you die.O”
― Cynthia Bond, Ruby

“For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.”
― LeVar Burton

“Believe in life! Always human beings will progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois