"Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise."

-- Maya Angelou

#Inspirational Quotes #Dream Quotes #Slave Quotes

“And it's like some tiny nothing that sets off a natural disaster halfway across the world, only this was the opposite of disaster, how by accident she saved me with that thoughtless act of grace, and she never knew, and how that, too, is the part of the history of love.”
“Cuisine is only about making foods taste the way they are supposed to taste.”
“Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.”
“Are You Seeing Me? is written powerfully with both the heart and the head, and neither gives an inch. It's funny, moving and hugely insightful. Darren Groth puts the reader into the heads of Perry and Justine in a way that feels so true and so revealing that I think I've come away with a greater capacity for empathy. I didn't know a book could do that. We all need to spend some time inside this story.”
“I have to feel that I'm going somewhere all the time. By definition, if you have this urge to go places, then you can't be 100 percent happy where you are. It's not like I enjoy being miserable for weeks on end. But I think it's good to be miserable for about one day every third week - that's ideal for me.”
“I knew wherever I was that you thought of me, and if I got in a tight place you would come-if alive.”
“I'm an American by birth, but I'm a Texan by the Grace of God...”
“His anger was as great as mine, but hot where mine was cold.”

Source : John Christopher (2013). “The Pool of Fire”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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