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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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"He held out a shaky and worn hand and she met it with one of her young and inexperienced ones."
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"We have to help the one who has fallen, we should not question 'why did you fall?"
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"He sometimes wondered if she had become involved with him just so that she could cry in someone's arms. Maybe she can't cry alone, and that's why she needs me."
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"An open heart has greater power than a clenched fist."
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"When you learn to kill animals, you are unconsciously teaching cruelty to other creations."
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"Before hurting an animal, feel her pain and see her tears. Then question your conscience."
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"You don't do kind deeds expecting kindness in return. You don't do kind deeds because you deem the recipient worthy. You do kind deeds because it's who you are, and because you understand the powerful difference your gentle hand makes in this dreary world."
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"Wisdom without Christ brings bitterness, with Christ it brings compassion."
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"Approaching others with a loving heart enables you to be more caring, compassionate, and empathetic. What's not to love about that?"
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"Have compassion for people as long as you are one of them too."
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"But by far the worst thing we do to males-by making them feel they have to be hard-is that we leave them with very fragile egos. The harder a man feels compelled to be, the weaker his ego is."
Psychology
"You could have just said Ngozi is your tribal name and Ifemelu is your jungle name and throw in one more as your spiritual name. They'll believe all kinds of shit about Africa."
Society
"The Red Cross irritated Ugwu, the least they could do was ask Biafrans their preferred foods rather than sending so much bland flour."
Awareness
"Make dressing a question of taste and attractiveness instead of a question of morality."
Lifestyle
"She cries quietly, her shoulders heaving up and down, not the kind of loud sobbing that the women Chika knows do, the kind that screams Hold me and comfort me because I cannot deal with this alone. The woman's crying is private, as though she is carrying out a necessary ritual that involves no one else."
Grief
"The best thing about America is that it gives you space. I like that. I like that you buy into the dream, it's a lie but you buy into it and that's all that matters."
Lifestyle
"I am just as human as the man."
Humanity
"The educated ones leave, the ones with the potential to right the wrongs. They leave the weak behind. The tyrants continue to reign because the weak cannot resist. Do you not see that it is a cycle? Who will break that cycle?"
Society
"But by far the worst thing we do to males - by making them feel they have to be hard - is that we leave them with very fragile egos. The harder a man feels compelled to be, the weaker his ego is."
Society
"A father is as much a verb as a mother."
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