"[Jesus Christ] used to have blue eyes but I painted them brown like mine and everybody's, to make him normal."

-- NoViolet Bulawayo

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“I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.”

Source : "Christmas Carol" by Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2005.
“Prayer is never complete until God has answered.”
“Your time as the entrepreneur is worth hundreds of dollars an hour. If you are doing tasks you could hire out, those are stopping you from earning that kind of money.”
“I try to walk at least three times a week for 40 minutes or an hour. I do it at the gym on the treadmill, or I go hiking outside.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Hopes and regrets are the sweetest links of existence.”
“The racial conversation in the States is so multifaceted and multilayered. Obviously it's not always a positive conversation, but it's just so much more detailed than it was when I was growing up in South Africa.”
“In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee”
“Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them.”

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