Melanie

“To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk

“It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.”
― Tacitus, The Histories

“Sam Vimes could parallel process. Most husbands can. They learn to follow their own line of thought while at the same time listening to what their wives say. And the listening is important, because at any time they could be challenged and must be ready to quote the last sentence in full. A vital additional skill is being able to scan the dialogue for telltale phrases such as "and they can deliver it tomorrow" or "so I've invited them for dinner?" or "they can do it in blue, really quite cheaply.”
― Terry Pratchett

“He began to have a dim feeling that, to attain his place in the world, he must be himself, and not another.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk