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- Truth. It feels cool, like water washing over my sticky-hot body. Cooling a heat that's been burning me up all my life. Truth, I say…
- I come home that morning, after I been fired, and stood outside my house with my new work shoes on. The shoes my mama paid…
- All I'm saying is, kindness don't have no boundaries.
- All my life I'd been told what to believe about politics, coloreds, being a girl. But with Constantine's thumb pressed in my hand, I realized…
- That's all a grit is, a vehicle. For whatever it is you rather be eating.
- I give in and light another cigarette even though last night the surgeon general came on the television set and shook his finger at everybody,…
- I don't know what to say to her. All I know is, I ain't saying it. And I know she ain't saying what she want…
- Mississippi is like my mother. I am allowed to complain about her all I want, but God help the person who raises an ill word…
- Mother calls up the stairs to ask what in the world I'm typing up there all day and I holler down, 'Just typing up some…
- Stuart stands and says, 'Come here,' and he's on my side of the room in one stride and he claps my hands to his hips…
- [Crisco] ain't just for frying. You ever get a sticky something stuck in your hair,like gum?...That's right, Crisco. Spread this on a baby's bottom, you…
- Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again.
- Here's to new beginnings," Stuart says and raises his bourbon. I nod, sort of wanting to tell him that all beginnings are new.
- Shame ain't black, like dirt, like I always thought it was. Shame be the color of a new white uniform your mother ironed all night…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle