"Come windless invader I am a carnival of Stars, a poem of blood."

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Source : Sonia Sanchez (2012). “Like the Singing Coming off the Drums: Love Poems”, p.25, Beacon Press

Sonia Sanchez

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“A blindfolded monkey throwing darts at a newspaper's financial pages could select a portfolio that would do just as well as one carefully selected by experts,”

Source : Burton G. Malkiel (2007). “A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing”, p.24, W. W. Norton & Company
“If Christ has died for me - ungodly as I am, without strength as I am - then I can no longer live in sin, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me. I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend. I must be holy for his sake. How can I live in sin when He has died to save me from it?”
“The almighty dollar and the lust for world wide fame, slowly killed tradition, and for that someone should hang.”

Source : Song: Murder On Music Row
“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.”
“Good health is true wealth.”
“Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this...only the best is good enough for a child.”
“Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free. Once I fretted and beat myself against the wall that shut me in. My life was without a past or future, and death a consummation devoutly to be wished. But a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hands that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped up with the rapture of living. I do not know the meaning of the darkness, but I have learned the overcoming of it.”
“If you give your soul up to anything earthly, whether it be the wealth, or the honours, or the pleasures of this world, you might as well hunt after the mirage of the desert or try to collect the mists of the morning, or to store up for yourself the clouds of the sky, for all these things are passing away.”

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