"It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test."

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Source : Wendell Phillips (1969). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters, Second Series”, Ayer Company Pub

Mahalia Jackson

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“I am a person always full of contradictions... It was hard to choose whether to devote myself to revolution as a soldier or as a writer.”

Source : "Living legend: Ba Jin". www.newsgd.com. November 26, 2003.
“Brooke and I share some similarities. We're both passionate, fiercely loyal people. But she is far more outlandish than I'd ever be, particularly with her body and her sexuality. Brooke has made herself weak for men - she only gained self-confidence from their attention.”
“Strange dreams are better than no dreams at all.”
“Little did I know that I would be fortunate enough to develop several operating systems in my lifetime; developing one is a rare opportunity for anyone.”
“Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.”
“I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.”
“People don't feel so quarrelsome in warm weather. They get crotchety in the fall and begin to go to law about things after the first hard frosts.”
“There's such a big difference between being dead and alive, I told myself, the greatest gift that anyone can give anyone else is life. And the greatest sin a person can do to another is to take away that life. Next to that, all the rules and religions in the world are secondary; mere words and beliefs that people choose to believe and kill and hate by. My life won't be lived that way, and neither, I hope, will my children's.”

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