"The manner in which I learned to read and write, not only had great influence on my own mind, as I acquired it with the most perfect ease, so much so, that I have no recollection whatever of learning the alphabet."

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Source : Nat Turner (2011). “The Confessions of Nat Turner, the Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Virginia”, p.18, Univ of North Carolina Press

Nat Turner

#Writing Quotes #Perfect Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot read The hunter's waking thoughts.”
“Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.”
“Atheism is without God. It does not assert no God.”

Source : "Letters", reason.com. February 1976.
“But being an American woman married to an Arab guy - and a Muslim to boot! - put me in a different category. People would open up, and tell me things that they would never tell another journalist, no matter how persistent.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“That which is impermanent attracts compassion. That which is not provides wisdom. (116)”
“Twenty years from now if there is some obscure trivial pursuits question, I am confident I will be the answer.”
“But, if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself.”
“While we may open the books of the past, we may but grant flying glances of the future, through the mist that veils it.”

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