“To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life.”

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

“I am even more certain that to create dangerously is also to create fearlessly, boldly embracing the public and private terrors that would silence us, then bravely moving forward even when it feels as though we are chasing or being chased by ghosts…”

—Edwidge Danticat

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.
—Albert Camus

'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.”
― Toni Morrison

“When the mob has grown so vast that you cannot see it, then it is everywhere.”

Richard Wright, The Outsider