“Without community, there is no liberation... It is not our differences that divide us, it is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences... And your silence will not protect you.” - Audre Lorde "To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious, is to be in a rage almost all the time. So that the first problem is how to control that rage so that it won’t destroy you." - James Baldwin"I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept." - Angela Y. Davis"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time." - Maya Angelou “People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get... For without a struggle, there can be no progress... And I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.” - Frederick Douglas“I come to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable.” - Lucille Clifton"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes... for we cannot change anything unless we accept it... And you are what you do, not what you say you’ll do." Carl Jung“Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts...never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world...for, indeed, that's all who ever have.” - Margaret Mead