“Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.”
— Maya Angelou

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”
— Frederick Douglass

“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”
— Harriet Tubman

“I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.”
— Rosa Parks

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
— Martin Luther King Jr

“It isn’t where you come from; it’s where you’re going that counts.”
— Ella Fitzgerald

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
— Barack Obama

“The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.”
— Maya Angelou

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
— Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
— Nelson Mandela

“Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.”
— Coretta Scott King

“We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It’s our basic human right.”
— Aretha Franklin

“History has shown us that courage can be contagious, and hope can take on a life of its own.
— Michelle Obama

“You can kill a man, but you can’t kill an idea.”
— Medgar Evers

“I had no idea that history was being made. I was just tired of giving up.”
— Rosa Parks

October is Black History Month

Singing and baking with YAOS in Sherborne

THE multi-talented Yeovil Amateur Operatic Society is moving east for its next production, to the Powell Theatre in Sherborne.

The show is the musical version of The Great British Bake-Off, making its first appearance locally on the amateur stage, and performances are from Monday 26th to Saturday 31st October.It is directed by Jennifer Holland-Brewer and Lucy Singleton is the MD.

The large cast includes contestants Sion Spencer, Ed Creswick, John Singer, Helena Reid, Emsee Roach, Charlie Woof, Jessica Bowditch and David Hallett. The hoss are played by Bevan Webber and Charlie Wanklin. The judges are Karen Pankhurst and Matthew Maisey. The TV crew is Stephy Bussell, Chris Holman-Holmes, Charmayne Hooper, Elisha Hooper, Amy Phelps and Sophie Upham.

So if you have watched the fun and tension of the Bake-Off on TV, you can now see some of your favourite local performers take on the showstopper and technical challenge and try to avoide soggy bottoms, at the same time as singing.

For more details, visit the YAOS website, www.yaos.org