22 Quotes by Daniel Black

Our names told us who we were. They told us why we’d been sent. What was expected of us. We were not confused. We were not ashamed. We were not perfect, but we were excellent.

Perhaps future generations, the beautiful ones unborn, would wonder how we survived it all. What would we say? Or, more probably, what would history say for us? It would not speak truth. Not whole truth. It could not.

Denial makes people repeat what they aren’t willing to acknowledge.

Sometimes, when people think they’re putting obstacles in your path, they’re actually laying your stepping-stones. You just gotta recognize them as one and the same.

The pain of what happened next lives in our collective memory. It mauls our souls each day. Yet it must be told. Silence guarantees no healing. It promises that the child’s life would be forgotten and that its mission might, one day, be thought significant. Silence is the enemy of history, and history is all we have.

Truth was, they died as we died. It made sense. The universe demands life for life.

We were wonderful, but we were not flawless. We knew excellence because we knew failure. We were human beings.

Among us lived every spirit conceivable. Men who loved women, women who loved men. Women who loved women, men who loved men. These were not choices but life assignments. Everyone had one.

God has a way of making sure you reach your destiny, regardless of what others do to you.