Robert Ruggiero

“We must not be frightened nor cajoled
into accepting evil as deliverance from evil.
We must go on struggling to be human,
though monsters of abstraction
police and threaten us.

Reclaim now, now renew the vision of
a human world where godliness
is possible and man
is neither gook nigger honkey wop nor kike

but man

permitted to be man.”
― Robert Hayden, Collected Poems

“He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.”
― Baltasar Gracián

“When the pressure is on, you don’t rise to the occasion—you fall to your highest level of preparation.”
― Chris Voss

“Your actions speak so loudly, I can not hear what you are saying.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson