We must all raise war against ignorance.

— Sunday Adelaja

There is a season for everything under the sun—even when we can’t see the sun.

— Jared Brock

As you go through your journey of self-healing and self-discovery, it may seem like a long stretch of darkness to get through, but just like a tunnel, know that there is light and freedom at the end of it.

— Tiffany L. Jackson

You have a great light to illuminate the world.

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Be like stars; instead of cursing the darkness, shine.

— Matshona Dhliwayo

The light needs only our trustAnd, of course, the darknessTo work its eternal alchemy.

— Scott Hastie

I wanted more than anything to connect to someone. I wanted to feel alive again. I just felt dead inside. I could understand how some people just gave up. This darkness was overwhelming.

— J.M. Northup

Until there is equal and fair portion of opportunities apportioned for every citizen, the power structure may need to be restructured.

— Sunday Adelaja

Edgar Allan Poe’s writings showed me perfectly that there can be such fragile beauty and purity located in darkness and sorrow.

— Nicholas Trandahl

I sing to use the waiting, My bonnet but to tie, And shut the door unto my house; No more to do have I, Till, his best step approaching, We journey to the day, And tell each other how we sang To keep the dark away.

— Emily Dickinson