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"I have both the violent turbulence of the storm and the quiet promises of God in the storm. And what I must work to remember is that something is not necessarily stronger simply because it's louder."

"When relationship is gone, the strength for life is gone and there is no more energy to live."

"Believe in yourself up here and it will make you stronger than you could ever imagine."

"A thought can be cast down by speaking out loud words of resistance and words of God."

"Job is an optimist. He shakes the pillars of the world and strikes insanely at the heavens; he lashes the stars, but it is not to silence them; it is to make them speak."

"Pain that results in success is better than pleasure that results in failure."

"As rain does not bother the ocean, nor heat bother the sun, so adversity does not bother the great."

"There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions, who will do anything. Of course we make him pay afterward for his moment of superiority, his moment of impressiveness."
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"Class, race, sexuality, gender and all other categories by which we categorize and dismiss each other need to be excavated from the inside."

"I tell my students you have an absolute right to write about people you know and love. You do. But the kicker is you have a responsibility to make the characters large enough that you will not have sinned against them."

"Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me."

"One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt."
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