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If I cannot air this pain and alter it, I will surely die of it. That's the beginning of social protest.
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Raising Black children-female and male-in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and…
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Battling racism and battling heterosexism and battling apartheid share the same urgency inside me as battling cancer.
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Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
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Silence has never brought us anything of worth.
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Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then…
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I am still learning - how to take joy in all the people I am, how to use all my selves in…
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For we have built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation and response, old structures of oppression and these must be…
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Difference is that raw and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged... We have been taught to either ignore our…
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. They are chaotic, sometimes painful, sometimes contradictory, but they come from deep within…
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There are many lesbians and gay men trapped by their fear into silence and invisibility, and they exist in a dim valley…
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Art is not living. It is a use of living. The artist has the ability to take that living and use it…
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Funeral: a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure…
— Ambrose Bierce
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We carry oceans inside of us, in our blood and our sweat. And we are crying the oceans, in our tears.
— Gregory David Roberts
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If people ever look down upon you for crying for fictional characters, you should give them a gentle, pitying look and feel…
— Cassandra Clare
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Our sins are debts that none can pay but Christ. It is not our tears, but His blood; it is not our…
— Thomas Brooks
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May God keep fresh the fountain of our laughter and our tears!
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.
— Khalil Gibran
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This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied…
— Richard V. Allen
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We must continue to unite in sisterhood to turn our tears into triumph. There is no time to rest until our world…
— Leymah Gbowee
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We are Heavenly Father’s children. He wants to be a part of our lives, to bless us, and to help us. He…
— Carl B. Cook
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If I could prescribe a single rule for looking at a work of art it would be to enjoy it. If we're…
— Vincent Price
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There's a curse on me as there's a curse on the Larkin name. The curse comes back, again and again, to taunt…
— Leon Uris
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To keep our hand on the plow while wiping away our tears -- THAT is Christianity!
— Watchman Nee
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