Quoting: Two Js and One Unknown

Laugh. Laugh out loud. And laugh often. And when circumstances call for silence, turn your laugh into a smile.
—Anonymous

Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel; the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience, his fear of life, his arid heart; and it is always, therefore, the signal of secret and violent inhumanity, the mask of cruelty
—James Baldwin, "Everybody's Protest Novel"



for the one
who
standing in the sun
does not cast a shadow
—June Jordan, I Was Looking at the Ceiling and then I Saw the Sky