People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poiso… - James Baldwin

Some moments in a life, and they needn’t be very long or seem very important, can make up for so much in that life; can redeem, justify, that pain, that bewilderment, with which one lives, and invest one with the courage not only to endure it, but to profit from it; some moments teach one the price of the human connection: if one can live with one’s own pain, then one respects the pain of others, and so, briefly, but transcendentally, we can release each other from pain.

I simply wondered about the dead because their days had ended and I did not know how I would get through mine.

Yr crown has been bought and paid for. All you have to do is put it on yr head