"We used to say in the black community that if somebody else caught a cold, we caught pneumonia."

-- Gwen Ifill

#Pneumonia Quotes #Community Quotes #Black Quotes

“It's not what happens in life that bothers us. It's what we're believing about it that bothers us.”

Source : Twitter post from May 14, 2013
“A man in the house is worth two in the street.”
“And in this moment, I realize one reason it's so great to have a best friend is sometimes, like right now, Cal and I are thinking the very same thing.”

Source : Kimberly Willis Holt (2011). “When Zachary Beaver Came to Town”, p.200, Macmillan
“Two things put me in the spirit to give. One is that I have come to think of everyone with whom I come into contast as a patient in the emergency room. I see a lot of gaping wounds and dazed expressions. Or, as Marianne Moore put it, "The world's an orphan's home." And this feels more true than almost anything else I know. But so many of us can be soothed by writing: think of how many times you have opened a book, read one line, and said, "Yes!" And I want to give people that feeling, too, of connection, communication.”
“Never use the words 'suddenly' or 'all hell broke loose.'”
“Life is a toy made of glass; it appears to be of inestimable price, but in reality it is very cheap.”
“Roads are a record of those who have gone before.”
“When you're bored with yourself, marry and be bored with someone else.”

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