"Frosting Freedom Is just frosting On somebody else's Cake-- And so must be Till we Learn how to Bake."

-- Langston Hughes

“I know these will become old stories someday and our pictures will become old photographs and we'll all become somebody's Mom or Dad, but right now, these moments are not stories. This is happening and I'm here.”
“If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?”
“I'm really bad with jokes. I would have to say Limp Bizkit.”
“Keep scribbling! Something will happen.”
“He seemed so certain about everything, didn't he? And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman's head. He wasn't even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man.”
“Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.”

Source : "Actor Roma Downey: Being inspired by kindness and the centering ritual of tea". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“All those evil doctrines about God that work misery and madness have their origin in the brains of the wise and prudent, not in the hearts of children.”
“Actually, I dont hate cats, Im just kind of afraid of them.”

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