"Courage doesn't mean being free from fear; it means learning to work through fear and speak even when we are afraid."

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Source : Joanna Brooks (2012). “The Book of Mormon Girl: A Memoir of an American Faith”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

Joanna Brooks

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“The Irishman frees himself from slavery when he realizes the truth that the capitalist system is the most foreign thing in Ireland. The Irish question is a social question. The whole age-long fight of the Irish people against their oppressors resolves itself in the last analysis into a fight for the mastery of the means of life, the sources of production, in Ireland. Who would own and control the land? The people, or the invaders; and if the invaders, which set of them - the most recent swarm of land thieves, or the sons of the thieves of a former generation?”
“Every artist has to grow, and has to challenge themselves with a new form of expression”

Source : "Terrence Dashon Howard: A rising star". Interview with Jason Zingale, www.bullz-eye.com. August 05, 2005.
“If Jesus is not God, then there is no Christianity, and we who worship Him are nothing more than idolaters. Conversely, if He is God, those who say He was merely a good man, or even the best of men, are blasphemers. More serious still, if He is not God, then He is a blasphemer in the fullest sense of the word. If He is not God, He is not even good.”
“If we consider what science already has enabled men to know-the immensity of space, the fantastic philosophy of the stars, the infinite smallness of the composition of atoms, the macrocosm whereby we succeed only in creating outlines and translating a measure into numbers without our minds being able to form any concrete idea of it-we remain astounded by the enormous machinery of the universe.”
“It is a trial within a nation but a trial of victors against the vanquished. Even before the trials started, the victors who are our judges were quite convinced that we were guilty and that we should all pay the price.”
“Do you see how Jerry Heller made it work? That is how he combined what we did to make the rap music into mass music. That's exactly how it happened.”
“Women who work for escort agencies that assign them out to prostitution dates at sushi restaurants know how to eat with chopsticks, and beyond that they are in every other way identical to other prostitutes. Theyâ€™re not better looking; theyâ€™re not smarter; theyâ€™re not classier; theyâ€™re not more charming. They probably give more ***** than any reasonable woman, right? And they are empty inside, but itâ€™s also societyâ€™s fault.”
“Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.”

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