This Week…

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”

–C.S Lewis

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”

–Rumi

“Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost.”

–Khalil Gibran

“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