“To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.”
"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up."
- James Baldwin
Love
"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."
- James Baldwin
Love
"Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."
- James Baldwin
Love
"Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within."
- James Baldwin
Love
"If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons."
- James Baldwin
Love
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity