Death to the young is more than that undiscovered country; despite its inevitability, it is a place having reality only in song or in other people's … - Maya Angelou

The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

You develop courage, the most important of all the virtues, because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently. If you've seen another truth and had enough courage to change your way of thinking, to say "Hey everybody, you know what I said last week? I don't believe that anymore. A little child just straightened me out."

The Black woman in the South who raises sons, grandsons and nephews had her heartstrings tied to a hanging noose. Any break from routine may herald for them unbearable news.