by Kevin Mercado | Mar 20, 2017 | Quote of the Week
“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.” –Anne Bradstreet, “Meditations Divine and Moral,” The Works of Anne Bradstreet – Anne Bradstreet...
by Breana Swinehart | Mar 6, 2017 | Quote of the Week
“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world, and you have to do it all the time.” —Angela Davis during a lecture at Southern Illinois University – Angela Davis is a lifelong activist icon for many movements, from feminism...
by Breana Swinehart | Feb 27, 2017 | Quote of the Week
“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.” —Toni Morrison, in an...
by Breana Swinehart | Feb 13, 2017 | Quote of the Week
“Change requires intent and effort. It really is that simple.” —Roxane Gay, “Beyond the Measure of Men,” Bad Feminist – Roxane Gay is an essayist, writer, editor, public speaker, and professor. Gay has made a name for herself for her...
by Breana Swinehart | Feb 6, 2017 | Quote of the Week
“In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.” —Octavia Butler, Wild Seed – Influential science fiction writer Octavia Butler was a true genius of the genre, amassing a...
by Breana Swinehart | Jan 30, 2017 | Quote of the Week
“I have sometimes dreamt, at least, that when the Day of Judgment dawns and the great conquerors and lawyers and statesmen come to receive their rewards—their crowns, their laurels, their names carved indelibly upon imperishable marble—the Almighty will turn to...
