“Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity….When we reject the single story, when we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise."
– Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
"It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences."
-Audre Lorde
"We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society."
-Angela Davis
"We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives."
-Toni Morrison
"I see myself first and foremost as a student of expression. "
-Anna Deavere Smith
Live Love. Encourage Life.
Faith Jones-Jackson