"I learned from James Baldwin that one can be a novelist, essayist, and activist, combined. That being critical of one's country is a way of loving it. That travel is crucial for perspective. That faith needn't be confined to organized religion."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Emily Raboteau

#Country Quotes #Perspective Quotes #Activist Quotes

“Women should have the freedom to do whatever they need to do to feel good about themselves,”
“I would like this to be a new day. I would hope now that we can focus on doing the people's business.”
“A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.”
“God loves all his children, somehow we've forgotten, but we paraphrase a book written thirty-five hundred years ago.”
“The hardest choices in life aren't between what's right and what's wrong but between what's right and what's best.”

Source : Jamie Ford (2014). “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet and Songs of Willow Frost: Two Bestselling Novels: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Songs of Willow Frost”, p.260, Ballantine Books
“There are actual monsters in the world, but when my kids ask I pretend like there arenâ€™t.”
“Good teachers are to education what education is to all other professionsâ€”the indispensable element, the sunlight and oxygen, the foundation on which everything else is built.”
“Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.”

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