"It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand there and lie about who you actually are. That's the trap."

-- Alice Walker

#Lying Quotes #Taken Quotes #Traps Quotes

“Two radical activists in an organizing group sometime despise each other and disagree with each other as much as a Republican and Democratic politician do.”

Source : "The Lenny Interview: Rachel Maddow". Interview with Grace Dunham, www.yahoo.com. April 21, 2016.
“Each aspect within us needs understanding and compassion. If we are unwilling to give it to ourselves how can we expect the world to give it to us?”
“Sweet mother of chaos," he breathed. "Rachel, you are indeed one of us. Have your time in the sun. You're worth the extra wait.”
“He came over and ruffled my hair, which is technically assault. I could get on the blower to ChildLine.”
“The factors that have been holding farmers back are similar to those that threaten other types of growth in Africa. Infrastructure and transport are in many cases quite poor, resulting in the losses of huge amounts of produce.”

Source : "Agriculture, and Africa’s Future" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 8, 2013.
“The Lord has never restricted Himself to move by any predetermined formula”
“God will take care of what you go through. You take care of how you go through it.”
“Take time to be still, in a hallowed place in nature, and you'll discover that you are connected to everything.”

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