Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American writer Paula Giddings.
Last updated on December 3, 2024.
Paula J. Giddings is an African-American writer, historian, and civil rights activist. She is the author of When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America,In Search of Sisterhood: Delta Sigma Theta and the Challenge of the Black Sorority Movement and Ida, A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching.
I am old enough to know that victory is often a thing deferred, and rarely at the summit of courage... What is at the summit of courage, I think, is freedom... the freedom that comes with the knowledge that no earthly thing can break you.
It was my mother who gave me my voice. She did this, I know now, by clearing a space where my words could fall, grow, then find their way to others.