Oglala Lakota Quotes

#1. I will be the Vampire Lestat for all to see. A symbol, a freak of nature - something loved, something despised all of those things. I tell you I can't give it up. I can't miss. And quite frankly I am not in the least afraid.
- Lestat, The Vampire Lestat, p. 532

Anne Rice

#2. Going to Liberia really changed a lot for me. I didn't realize what was happening on the same planet. My understanding that in the world everything is interconnected really grew - to go to one of the poorest countries from one of the richest countries in the world. It was two worlds apart.

Tim Hetherington

#3. Pain could be killed. Sadness could not, but the drugs did shut its mouth for a time.

Colson Whitehead

#4. Whenever I go on vacation I like to change up my hair - I'll braid it or get dreads - but my favorite is just keeping it short and curly.

Herieth Paul

#5. You still believe the injustice was Michael Brown. You have not yet grappled with your own myths and narratives and discovered the plunder everywhere around us.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#6. Traditional (Hawaiian Saying): A road goes down, up and level. In other words. life is like a road.

John Richard Stephens

#7. The things that knock you down in life are tests, forcing you to make a choice between giving in and remaining on the ground or wiping the dirt off and standing up even taller than you did before you were knocked down.

Colleen Hoover