Have enough courage to love.
I wasn't a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know.
I thought if I could face the worst danger voluntarily, and triumph, I would forever have power over it.
Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.
My people had used music to soothe slavery's torment or to propitiate God, or to describe the sweetness of love and the distress of lovelessness, but I knew no race could sing and dance its way to freedom.
If you're for the right thing, you do it without thinking.