“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.” — Maya Angelou – Maya Angelou is one of the...

“There’s no such thing as a vote that doesn’t matter.” — President Barack Obama in his final speech as president at the Congressional Black Caucus gala – Closing in on the end of his final term, 44th President of the United States Barack...

“The fact that I’m me and no one else is one of my greatest assets.” – Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running: A Memoir – Masterful literary fiction writer Haruki Murakami is responsible for world-renowned books such as Norwegian...

“Everything in the world was in precarious balance, pure risk, and those who didn’t agree to take the risk wasted away in a corner, without getting to know life.” — Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name – A prolific Italian writer, the pseudonymous...

“Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea. Some bottles drown, some come safe to land, where the notes are read and then possibly cherished, or else misinterpreted, or else understood all too well by those who hate the...

“Life is too short to be lived badly.” — Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return – Author and illustrator of the Persepolis Series, Embroideries, The Sigh, and others, Marjane Satrapi  is a famous Iranian-French graphic novelist...