"Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong."

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Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

Barry White

#Strong Quotes #Mama Quotes #Streets Quotes

“When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear.”
“Salvation is a word for the divine spaciousness that comes to human beings in all the tight places where their lives are at risk, regardless of how they got there or whether they know God's name. Sometimes it comes as an extended human hand and sometimes as a bolt from the blue, but either way it opens a door in what looked for all the world like a wall. This is the way of life, and God alone knows how it works.”

Source : FaceBook post by Barbara Brown Taylor from Jul 02, 2013
“We all must live our lives always feeling, always thinking the moment has arrived.”

Source : Song: If Not Now, Album: Tracy Chapman, 1988
“Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence. Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate... I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it.”
“In college, my big money memory was saving up to buy a car with my boyfriend, whom I lived with.”
“One finds one's way only by taking it.”

Source : A. G. Sertillanges (1987). “The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods”, p.199, CUA Press
“I didn't picture myself as even a grandmaster, to say nothing of aspiring to the chess crown. This was not because I was timid - I wasn't - but because I simply lived in one world, and the grandmasters existed in a completely different one. People like that were not really even people, but like gods or mythical heroes.”
“Every believer is an anarchist at heart. True believers would rather see governments topple and history rewritten than scuff the cover of their faith.”

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