“I have reached a point in my life where I understand the pain and the challenges; and my attitude is one of standing up with open arms to meet them all.”
— Myrlie Evers-Williams

Georgia O’Keffee, artist

“The simple step of the courageous
individual is to not take part in the
lie.”
– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

A humming bird constructed her nest on peach.

“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? It’s beyond me.” —Zora Neale Hurston, Harlem Renaissance Author

We do not surrender to the insistences that our voices, our bodies, our minds, our pasts, our presents, our futures, our brilliance and light be constantly erased and extinguished. Our voices, our bodies, our minds, our pasts, our presents, our futures, our brilliance and light survives, endures, strives, and thrives as constant beacons of joyous light, our liberation. ARC

“Let everyone sweep in front of their own door, and the whole world will be clean.” – Goethe