"My heart was full of softening showers, I used to swing like this for hours, I did not care for war or death, I was glad to draw my breath."

-- Stevie Smith

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“The manner in which one single ray of light, one single precious hint, will clarify and energize the whole mental life of him who receives it, is among the most wonderful and heavenly of intellectual phenomena.”
“What families have in common the world around is that they are the place where people learn who they are and how to be that way.”
“the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color. Often at night there is lightning, but it quivers all alone. There is no thunder, no relieving rain. These are strange and breathless days, the dog days, when people are led to do things they are sure to be sorry for.”
“Bilbo lay with his eyes shut, gasping an taking pleasure in the feel of the fresh air again, and hardly noticing the excitement of the dwarves, or how they praised him and patted him on the back and put themseves and all their families for generations to come at his service.”
“Autistic children are extremely bright if you can connect to them and bring them into our world. Socially it's really hard for them, but it can happen.”

Source : "Tisha Campbell & Duane Martin: Through the Fire". "Essence.com" Interview, www.essence.com. December 16, 2009.
“The human heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that - a parentâ€™s heart bared, beating forever outside its chest.”
“This is all new to me, these re-releases. I don't know how these things do. I don't know if it will be people who saw it originally or young people”
“There are no more excuses for leaving women out of the inner circles of power. Qualified women are everywhere. Women are ready for leadership; they just need to be identified and asked.”

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