A favorite quotation:
“Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me.”
Source: Zora Neale Hurston, “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” (1928).
So much wisdom, for so many … said in so few words.
Perfect statement! Unfortunately, Hurston died a pauper. It was decades after her death that she got the recognition she deserved.