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"I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people."
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"Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again."
"I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look Homeward, Angel.'"
"We need the courage to create ourselves daily, to be bodacious enough to create ourselves daily - as Christians, as Jews, as Muslims, as thinking, caring, laughing, loving human beings. I think that the courage to confront evil and turn it by dint of will into something applicable to the development of our evolution, individually and collectively, is exciting, honorable."
"All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike."
"Many members of that early band of twentieth-century pilgrims must have yearned for the honesty of Southern landscapes where even if they were the targets of hate mongers who wanted them dead, they were at least credited with being alive. Northern whites with their public smiles of liberal acceptance and their private behavior of utter rejection wearied and angered the immigrants."
"Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment meted out by the older generation (which had itself confessed to the same crime short years before). The command to grow up at once was more bearable than the faceless horror of wavering purpose, which was youth."
"The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are."
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"We are members of the Church of Christ."
"There is nothing quite so comforting like being part of a community."
"Let each of us lead a revolution of support in the lives of others."
"There is something wrong when a brother or sister becomes alienated from the rest of their family, so there is something wrong when Christians refuse to have anything to do with their fellow Christians. God wants us to live this Christian life together."
"If you can establish yourself in the community as a giver, those people with whom you associate yourself will extend your branding far beyond you."
"Cooperate expression of your church life means a lot."
"People would rather live in a community with unreasonable claims, than face loneliness with their truth."
"I am overwhelmed by the grace and persistence of my people."
"The sisterhood of librarians is a non-profit organisation and our goal is to keep imagination alive, not make money."
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