"Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground."

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Source : Zora Neale Hurston, Alice Walker (1979). “I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader”, p.33, Feminist Press at CUNY

Zora Neale Hurston

#Mom Quotes #Mother Quotes #Children Quotes

“I've been accused of almost every crime you can imagine.”
“The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.”
“What do you mean "gangsters"? It's business.”

Source : "Fictional character: Wally". "Force of Evil", www.imdb.com. 1948.
“And the Zionists have used the Holocaust as a weapon to deny the rights of the Palestinians and to cover-up the crimes of Israel.”
“This race is not for the swift, but for the smart, for the one who knows himself as the winner”
“Rahul Dravid is a player who would walk on broken glass if his team asks him to”
“Subsequently, the Japanese people experienced a variety of vicissitudes and were involved in international disputes, eventually, for the first time in their history, experiencing the horrors of modern warfare on their own soil during World War II.”
“There exists, for everyone, a sentence - a series of words - that has the power to destroy you. Another sentence exists, another series of words, that could heal you. If you're lucky you will get the second, but you can be certain of getting the first.”

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