“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” -Maya Angelou

“Give light and people will find the way.” – Ella Baker

“Life is short, and it’s up to you to make it sweet.” Sadie Delany

“I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.” – bell hooks

“Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? Its beyond me.” – Zora Neale Hurston

” Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth: let a people loving freedom come to growth.”- Margaret Walker

“White folks needs what black folks got just as much as black folks needs what white folks got, and we’s all got to stay here amongst each other and git along, that’s what.” – Margaret Walker

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. -Oprah Winfrey

Each time you love, love as deeply as if it were forever. – Audre Lorde