Candice Carpenter

“no human culture is inaccessible to someone who makes the effort to understand, to learn, to inhabit another world.”
― Henry Louis Gates Jr.

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle.”
― Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

“When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.”
― Stephen Richards