Our crown has already been bought and paid for. All we have to do is wear it - James Baldwin

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure, does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity and fear.

To accept one's past — one's history — is not the same thing as drowning it it; it is learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought.