“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.”
"Black people love their children with a kind of obsession. You are all we have, and you come to us endangered."
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
Love
"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
"An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness."
- Elbert Hubbard
Liberation
"Loyal customers, they don’t just come back, they don’t simply recommend you—they insist that their friends do business with you."
- Chip Bell
Liberation
"You don’t earn loyalty in a day. You earn loyalty day-by-day."
- Jeffrey Gitomer
Liberation
"It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery."
Liberation
"Where liberty is, there is my country."
- Benjamin Franklin
Liberation