“I don’t have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I’d become. I’m me, and I’m like nobody else.” -Lena Horne Tweet

“Anybody can become angry- that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way- that is not within everybody’s power, and is not easy.” -Aristotle Tweet

“It is important to note that the rise in crack cocaine trafficking in inner-city communities coincided with the calculated deemphasis on urban policy and the systematic gutting of social and economic support programs designed to ameliorate the plight of poor people, a disproportionate number of whom are people of color.” -Ron Daniels Tweet

“People are programmed and manipulated by the media, seduced by an education that traffics in expensive lies. They live in an intellectually and culturally confined world that’s similar to the one inhabited by Truman Burbank, the character in The Truman Show, who has no idea that the world in which he lives is no more […]

“I don’t know how much faith you have in newspapers…We have never been able to control our image…For some reason not being able to control our image made us ashamed of us…Talked about us so long, we started believing it.” -Dick Gregory Tweet

“Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not  swallowed.” -Josh Bilings Tweet

“The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.” -Mark Twain Tweet

“There is a saying in Tibetan, ‘Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.’ No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that’s our real disaster.” -Dalai Lama XIV Tweet

“Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.” -Hermann Hesse Tweet

“Heroes didn’t leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand. They didn’t wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else’s. And maybe […]