Casey Phanor

“Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”
― James Baldwin

“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

[Address at Rice University, September 12 1962]”
― John F. Kennedy

“Like King, we need to put on our cemetery clothes and be coffin-ready for the next great democratic battle.”
― Cornel West