“Call them from their houses, and teach them to dream.”— Jean Toomer Related Quotes “I had not expected the gentle, tentative surge of gratitude I began to feel…for St. Paul’s School, the spring, and the early morning. I needed the morning light and the warbling birds. I needed to find a way to live in this place for a moment and get the good of it. I had tried to hold myself apart, and the aloneness proved more terrible than what I had tried to escape.”— Lorene Cary “Loving ourselves is a revolutionary act!”— Abiola Abrams “The objective of stereotypes is not to reflect or represent a reality but to function as a disguise, or mystification, of objective social relations.”— Hazel V. Carby