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"Ifemelu would also come to learn that, for Kimberly, the poor were blameless. Poverty was a gleaming thing; she could not conceive of poor people being vicious or nasty because their poverty had canonized them, and the greatest saints were the foreign poor."
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"Compassion brings us closer to each other."

"To commune with God is to understand love because God is love."

"Jesus was never indifferent to the issues of the people in His day."

"It is better to do little things with love than big things without love."

"When we harm others we harm ourselves, when we help others we help ourselves."

"Jesus Christ is the Father of Fatherless."

"One of the greatest things you can learn in life is to be compassionate, and true compassion includes compassion for yourself."

"Nothing on earth is as unbearable as dealing with other people if you are a person who lacks compassion and understanding."

"Accept each other's fault with brotherly love."

"For an outpour of love there is always a first partaker."
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"She did not tell him this, because it would hurt him to know she had felt that way for a while, that her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out."

"A man who would be intimidated by me is exactly the kind of man I would have no interest in."

"Relaxing your hair is like being in prison. You're caged in. Your hair rules you. You didn't go running with Curt today because you don't want to sweat out this straightness. You're always battling to make your hair do what it wasn't meant to do."

"Talk to her about sex, and start early. It will probably be a bit awkward, but it is necessary."

"All over the world, there are so many magazine articles and books telling women what to do, how to be and not to be, in order to attract or please these men. There are far fewer guides for men about pleasing women."

"There are people, she once wrote, who think that we cannot rule ourselves because the few times we tried, we failed, as if all the others who rule themselves today got it right the first time. It is like telling a crawling baby who tries to walk, and then falls back on his buttocks, to stay there. As if the adults walking past him did not all crawl, once."

"Each time they ignore me, I feel invisible. I want to tell them that I am just as human as the man, just as worthy of acknowledgement. These are the little things, but sometimes it is the little things that sting the most."
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