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"There are some great positive quotes out there that I can't quite share as I wonder how a victim in a war torn country could be expected to see from their perspective?"
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"But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day."
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"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."
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Personal Development
"Maybe we have shoes so we can learn to walk in another's oath before judging their footsteps?"
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Personal Development
"If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way."
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"Still, this was on the order of a minor miracle, running across someone to whom you can express your feeling so clearly, so completely. Most people go their entire lives without meeting a person like that. It would have been mistake to label this "love". It was more like total empathy."
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"The pain of humanity's most maltreated victims echoes deep within each of us, in the form of our shame or ignorance."
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Personal Development
"Because no one is walking in your shoes, only you feel the sores on your feet."
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"Embrace love and compassion with all your spirit. Understand that they never hurt or offend, they just heal and empower."
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"The idea that I can't share my problems with other people makes me not give a shit about their problems."
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"Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about."
Education
"But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical."
Creativity
"Most of us don't have to worry about being shot of we poke our noses outside. So we are comfortable, but the people I'm writing about are definitely not comfortable, and being shot while they're still inside is a good possibility."
People
"While Fledging is a different type of book, The Parable series serve as cautionary tales. I wrote the Parable books because of the direction of the country. You can call it save the world fiction, but it clearly doesn't save anything."
Books
"Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere."
Education
"The thing about science fiction is that it's totally wide open. But it's wide open in a conditional way."
Creativity
"I talked to members of my family, and did some personal research that didn't really have anything to do with the time and place I was writing about, but that gave me a feeling of the experience of being black in a time and place where it was very difficult to be black."
Experience
"Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you."
Relationship
"Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it."
Writing
"I was raised Baptist, and I like the fact that I got my conscience installed early."
Spiritual
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