"No day in all my life had ever been as cruel as this one."

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Source : Mildred D. Taylor (2004). “Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Puffin Modern Classics)”, p.87, Penguin

Mildred D. Taylor

“That's what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays”
“It's not good to be in a situation where people don't want to direct you or don't want to question something.”
“We don't have to ask for our privacy, we can take it back”

Source : "Surveillance and Its Discontents: A Conversation Across Cyberspace with Edward Snowden and John Perry Barlow". techpresident.com. June 12, 2014.
“The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the condition and usages of the Christian world at the time they were written.”
“When the Democrats are attacked for [inciting class warfare] they shrink back. They don't say what obviously should be said, "Yes, there is class warfare. There has always been class warfare in this country." The reason the Democrats shrink back is because the Democrats and the Republicans are on the same side of the class war. They have slightly different takes. The Democrats are part of the upper class that is more willing to make concessions to the lower class in order to maintain their power.”
“I can cure your men of walking off the [flight] program. Let's put on the girls.”
“You really try to work the character out and spend time in the headspace of the character. That's what I did.”

Source : "The Russian Prince". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 14, 2016.
“The lunar flights give you a correct perception of our existence. You look back at Earth from the moon, and you can put your thumb up to the window and hide the Earth behind your thumb. Everything youve ever known is behind your thumb, and that blue-and-white ball is orbiting a rather normal star, tucked away on the outer edge of a galaxy.”

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