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“We believe the one who has power. He is the one who gets to write the story. So when you study history, you must ask yourself, Whose story am I missing? Whose voice was suppressed so that this voice could come forth? Once you have figured that out, you must find that story too. From there you get a clearer, yet still imperfect, picture.”
― Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing

“To me, the moral of the story was that there will always be hurdles in life, but if you want to achieve a goal, you must continue.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World

“I've put up with too much, too long. And now I'm just too intelligent, too powerful, too beautiful, too sure of who I am finally to deserve anything les”
― Cisneros, Sandra

“I've come to see the American Dream for what it really is: a lie my parents had little choice but to buy into and sell to me, a lie that conflated working hard with passing for, becoming, and being white.”
― Jennine Capo Crucet, My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education