Anyone who had ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor. — James Baldwin. American writer and activist (1924–1987) Poverty
You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be.
Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.