![]() ![]() My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at it destination full of hope. ![]() Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: “I’m with you kid. It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love. If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die. If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands you need to be able to throw something back. I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself. I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water. I believe that every person is born with talent. How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.įor Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It burns it all clean.Ĭhildren’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.Ĭourage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.Īt fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.īitterness is like cancer. All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.Īny book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.Īs far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. ![]()
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