"The young accept the extraordinary as normal because……" — Julius Lester
"The young accept the extraordinary as normal because they do not compare their lives with those of others when everyone is like them."
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Julius Lester
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23 Quotes by Julius Lester
Julius Lester has 23 quotes on this site.
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Dying ain't important. Everyone does that. What's important is how well you do your living.
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I write because the lives of all of us are stories. If enough of those stories are told, then perhaps…
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Books, and especially fiction, do not proceed from ideas. They are born from feelings
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Faith is not something that one has; faith is something that one practices at the very moment in your life…
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When I read students’ attempts at creative writing it is obvious immediately that most of them have not read much…
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Freeform radio is an art form. The airwaves are the empty canvas, the producer is the artist, and the sound…
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A good teacher is one who helps you become who you feel yourself to be. A good teacher is also…
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To write and not tell the truth? That would be death for any writer. But more, it would be death…
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Often, the human animal dresses terror in rage, and expresses both in a way unlike either.
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Each of us is comprised of stories, stories not only about ourselves but stories about ancestors we never knew and…
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It ain't how long you know somebody that means anything. It's what that person mean to you in your heart.
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Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or…
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Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines…
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other…
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets,…
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
— James A. Baldwin
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Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself…
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I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a…
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But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.
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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
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During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of…
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
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