This Week…

“I am America. I am the part you won’t recognize. But get used to me.”

–Muhammad Ali

“Hate is too great a burden to bear.”

–Coretta Scott King

“I’m not bossy, I’m the boss.”

–Beyoncé

“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”

–Zora Neale Hurston

“I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes.”

–Zora Neale Hurston

“The white man’s happiness cannot be purchased by the black man’s misery.”

–Frederick Douglass

“We wear the mask that grins and lies.”

–Paul Laurence Dunbar

“They have money for war but can’t feed the poor.”

–Tupac Shakur

“All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and that grace is painful.”

–Flannery O’Connor

“Humour is a way to put a finger on the wound.”

–Kiluanji Kia Henda