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"Take the blinders from your visiontake the padding from your earsand confess you've heard me crying and admit you've seen my tears."
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"Your voice could go to where your feet could not go."

"The main thing about ghosts " most of them have lost their voices. In Asphodel, millions of them wander around aimlessly, trying to remember who they were. You know why they end up like that? Because in life they never took a stand one way or another. They never spoke out, so they were never heard. Your voice is your identity. If you don't use it,' Nico said with a shrug, 'you're halfway to Asphodel already.' He hated when his own advice applied to himself."

"Smiling Bloopers Insincere smiling can backfire! (Different from a shy smile that just beckons a friendly "hello.") Transitioning from a smile to a straight face, too quickly, may give others the impression that you are fake or do not like them. Going overboard and smiling all the time, especially when it is inappropriate, will make you appear insincere. If your mouth smiles, but your eyes don't, there is a disconnect that can make you appear less authentic and trustworthy."

"Look at the single words below; wear these emotions on your face for just a moment. Try them on for size and note how they make you feel:Happiness. Fear. Anger. Sadness. Contempt. Surprise. Disgust.These are the basic human emotions which communicate with clear understanding across cultures, languages, and countries. In other words, a smile naturally conveys happiness and a frown naturally conveys sadness, no matter where you may be using your passport."

"Words can be honed to crafted perfection by the finest wordsmiths. Yet, if we trust solely in the expanse of them to explain this God of ours or articulate our experience of Him, we will have brutally destroyed the very things we are attempting to explain. And if I should do that, no words can describe how badly I wish I had no words."

"Oh... I just leave it......Words have as much weight as trying to jump from the 123333333334 Floor without a parachute and to be alive."

"Unleash your mighty words, and with them, recreate a new and more beautiful world for all."

"You heard me cry long before I knew my voice."

"Writing is exposing yourself to strangers."
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"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."

"I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back."

"The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned."

"Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone."

"I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything."

"As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them."

"I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right."

"The devil lives in our mistakes, the lord lives in our rights. Who lives in our ignorance, and who wins after all?"
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