“Names have power. This is the fundamental principle of magic everywhere.

Call out the name of a supernatural being, and you will have its instant and

undivided attention in the same way that your lost toddler will have yours the

second it calls your name.” 

― Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach

“The ground upon which you stand is holy ground: never-never surrender it.” 

― Angelina Weld Grimke

“What would it mean to stand on the first page of the end of despair…”

–– Adrienne Rich

Dreams Before Waiting

“Her clothes were filled with safety pins and hidden tears.” 

― Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine

“Imagination allows you to bend the rules of the temporal world.”

– Amy Sherald

“You can’t sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are.Th

You need to write it and paint it and do it.”

– Faith Ringgold

I battered the cordons around me

And cradled my wings on the breeze,

Then soared to the uttermost reaches

With rapture, with power, with ease!

– Georgia Douglas Johnson

“Truth is a letter from courage!”

Zora Neal Hurston

“Drive to the heart of every answer and expose the question the answer hides.”

– James A. Baldwin