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"Don't see it as forgiving him. See it as allowing yourself to be happy. What will you do with the misery you have chosen? Will you eat misery?"
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"Forgiveness is the fruit of fellowship."

"Anger is easier than forgiveness."

"Only the big souls can forgive the big crimes!"

"Despite the sorrows of sin, you can count on God's faithfulness and forgiveness."

"Forgive everyone. Forgive every misery and misfortune with love."

"It is easier to forgive yourself of a thousand misdeeds than to forgive your enemy of one."

"If the other person injures you you may forget the injury but if you injure him you will always remember."

"Take revenge, not by hurting someone, but by succeeding in life and helping those who were hurting you in the past."

"We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore."
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"If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not need limp gifts of fish but sturdy fishing rods and fair access to the pond. I wonder whether I would realize that while African nations have a failure of leadership, they also have dynamic people with agency and voices."

"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."

"He often paused before he spoke. She thought this exquisite, it was as though he had such regard for his listener that he wanted his words strung together in the best possible way."

"Marriage can be a good thing, a source of joy, love, and mutual support. But why do we teach girls to aspire to marriage, but we don't teach boys to do the same?"

"Each time he suggested they get married, she said no. They were too happy, precariously so, and she wanted to guard that bond; she feared that marriage would flatten it into a prosaic partnership."

"He thought about the next time he would laugh with her and then the next. He found himself often thinking about the future, even before the present was over."

"The person more qualified to lead is not the physically stronger person. It is the more intelligent, the more knowledgeable, the more creative, more innovative. And there are no hormones for those attributes."

"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."

"It doesn't have to be dreads. You can wear an Afro, or braids like you used to. There's a lot you can do with natural hair."

"Oh, why did he slap her when she's a widow, and that annoyed her even more. She said she should not have been slapped because she is a full human being, not because she doesn't have a husband to speak for her."
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