“Black people love their children with a kind of obsession. You are all we have, and you come to us endangered.”
"You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable."
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
Self-awareness
"I propose to take our countrymen’s claims of American exceptionalism seriously, which is to say I propose subjecting our country to an exceptional moral standard."
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
Morality
"I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free."
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
Liberation
"Love sees not with the eyes, but with the heart."
- Beauty and the Beast
Love
"The spell will be broken, the Beast will cease to exist, and I will become a prince once more, if she can learn to love and be loved in return."
- Beauty and the Beast
Love
"Love is not about finding someone perfect, but about accepting their imperfections."
- Beauty and the Beast
Love
"Love can break even the most powerful of curses."
- Beauty and the Beast
Love
"Love is not a choice, but a force that binds souls together."
- Beauty and the Beast
Love