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“I have a five year-old son and a three year-old daughter. I want my son to have a choice to contribute fully in the workforce or at home. And I want my daughter to have the choice to not just succeed, but to be liked for her accomplishments.”
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“As a teacher, I can help my students see what is working and not working. I can show them certain solutions. I can guide them to books that will serve as role models. Largely, though, one learns to write almost like developing muscle memory, and this requires years of effort.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
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“Any time your life is at stake and you can't find even one woman to come forward and say, 'This is a good man,' your problem isn't what kind of woman THEY are. Your problem is what kind of men YOU are.”
Source : Pearl Cleage (2011). “Just Wanna Testify: A Novel”, p.148, One World
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“In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought.”
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“Accept your genius and say what you think.”
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“But adulthood," continued the barely twentysomething, "doesn't give you power over what matters most. It doesn't protect you from pain, loss, fate. That's part of being human.”
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“I was always a little adult. Even as a little kid, I just couldn't understand why I was surrounded by all these kids. I took things very seriously.”
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“Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.”
Source : Ida B. Wells-Barnett (2014). “On Lynchings”, p.3, Courier Corporation
