“there is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside of you.”

- Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings -1969

“…research is formalized curiosity, it is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they, that dwell therein.”

— Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road - 1942