This Week…

“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.”
–Isak Dinesen

“Izintaba azihlangani kuhlangana abantu – Mountains don’t meet but people do.”
–A Zulu saying

“You don’t have to catch every ball that someone throws at you.”
–A friend’s advice over lunch

“Slavery is a memory of something we cannot remember, and yet we cannot forget.”
—Bill T. Jones

“There is a strange emptiness to life without myths.”
–N.K. Jemisin

“Whose little boy are you?”
–James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“Black literature is taught as sociology, as tolerance, not as a serious, rigorous art form.”
–Toni Morrison

“No time to marry, no time to settle down; I’m a young woman, and I ain’t done runnin’ around.”
–Bessie Smith

“Man, if you gotta ask you’ll never know.”
–Louis (Satchmo) Armstrong

“I never thought of losing, but now that it’s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.”
–Muhammad Ali