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Change is to the caterpillar what the metamorphosis is to the human being. It is the inevitable cycle of life. Without change, there is no life. — Susan Peabody

Up the airy mountain,
Down the rushy glen,
We daren't go a-hunting
For fear of little men. — William Allingham

In my writing, I'm often describing a universal situation. A situation in which human beings often choose to violate each other. Sometimes I happen to explore that in terms of the black/white dynamic. Generally, a white person does not like me to say, or does not like to be told, "You know, what you did was incredibly wrong." — Jamaica Kincaid

You must believe you have limitless potential in order to manifest your genius fully. Tell yourself every day, "I am a genius," and believe it. — Ilchi Lee

Everything makes me angry, unless it makes me sad. — Deborah Eisenberg

In my conscious life, though, I cannot honestly say I feel proud to be white and ashamed to be black or proud to be black and ashamed to be white. I find it impossible to experience either pride or shame over accidents of genetics in which I had no active part. I understand how those words got into the racial discourse, but I can't sign up to them. I'm not proud to be female either. I am not even proud to be human - I only love to be so. As I love to be female and I love to be black, and I love that I had a white father. It — Zadie Smith

Human beings are much better at breaking up than they are at getting together. The instinct to get together is very powerful, but it doesn't last long. — E. Jean Carroll

It is its own form of conversation
you can learn a lot about people from the stories they tell, but you can also know them from the way they sing along, whether they like the windows up or down, if they live by the map or by the world, if they feel the pull of the ocean. — David Levithan