"I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do."

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Source : "A Mother’s Story: It Is Not What We Say to Black Boys and Men, It Is What We Do to Them" by Laura W. Murphy, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 30, 2012.

James A. Baldwin

#Inspirational Quotes #Believe Quotes

“My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman.”
“I don't treat the band like I'm above them or that they're a hired hand for me. We've never worked that way. So I'm a team player. I would be very uncomfortable having to do this alone.”
“Can you question who you are? And are you comfortable with not knowing?”
“If all politicians fished instead of spoke publicly, we would be at peace with the world.”
“When love has carried us above all things into the Divine Dark, there we are transformed by the Eternal Word Who is the image of the Father; and as the air is penetrated by the sun, thus we receive in peace the Incomprehensible Light, enfolding us, and penetrating us.”
“Iâ€™m actually pale blue: it takes me a week of sunbathing to turn white.”
“Physics is mathematical not because we know so much about the physical world, but because we know so little; it is only its mathematical properties that we can discover.”
“Grand Slams are different. If you can get through a few matches, the draw opens up and you get confident. You just need a little bit of luck early, you get through those opening matches and you never know what could happen.”

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