Mike Williams

“Dreams are dangerous things, Louise. Especially when they depend on someone else.”
― Victoria Mas, The Mad Women's Ball

“Enthusiasm makes up for a host of deficiencies.”
― Barack Obama, A Promised Land

“When he was young, his father told him that black people didn’t like water because they were brought over here on slave ships. What did a black man want to swim for? The ocean floor was already littered with black men.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing

“I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it—on the inside.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Last Tycoon (An Unfinished Novel) together with The Great Gatsby