"If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they probably will not survive."

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Audre Lorde

“Genuine confidence is what launches you out of bed in the morning, and through your day with a spring in your step.”
“You do not base your belief that Jesus is the Saviour from sin upon the fact that somebody is saved, or says he is saved; but you base it upon the Word of the living God; and there you stand.”

Source : John Alexander Dowie (1914). “Leaves of Healing”
“You're like a philosopher with tattoos.”
“In schoolbooks and in literature we can separate ecclesiastical and political history; in the life of mankind they are intertwined.”
“Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. I am not a fan of books ... I like to get information from doing stuff like actually talking to people and living real life.”
“We live in very, very, very dangerous times.”
“Anyone who has read Yeats's wonderful Autobiography will remember his Sligo shabby, shadowed, half country and half sea, full of confused romance, superstition, poverty, eccentricity, unrecognized anachronism, passion and ignorance and the little boy's misery. Yeats was treated well but was bitterly unhappy; he prayed that he would die, and used often to say to himself: "When you are grown up, never talk as grown-up people do of the happiness of childhood.”
“I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish.”

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