This Week…

“To think about a future is the link about one possibilities in the world, and I have oftentimes said that the future belongs to Africa. Because it seems to have already happened everywhere else”
–Okwui Enwezor

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
–Mary Oliver

“Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.”
–Chinua Achebe

“I can’t die but once.”
–Harriet Tubman

“It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.”
—Frederick Douglass

“Whether we turn to the declarations of the past, or to the professions of the present, the conduct of the nation seems equally hideous and revolting. America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.”
—Frederick Douglass

“Never wound a snake; kill it.”
—Harriet Tubman

“I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can’t say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.”
–Harriet Tubman