"For people sometimes believed that it was safer to live with complaints, was necessary to cooperate with grief, was all right to become an accomplice in self-ambush... Take heart to flat out decide to be well and stride into the future sane and whole."

-- Toni Cade Bambara

#Grief Quotes #Heart Quotes #Self Quotes

“It's better to be known by six people for something you're proud of than to be known by sixty million for something you're not.”
“Any guy, even imaginary, would just feel like second best. Second best to what? I don't even have an image of the perfect boyfriend. I just know he must exist. Because I have all these feelings-love, longing, wanting to be touched, dreaming of being kissed-yet no one to focus them on.”
“All the working-class people could feel a Malcolm X. They could hear Malcolm X, and two weeks later they could whisper back what he said. Verbatim. They could remember the way he put it, and he put it so well.”
“Parents have the ability to screen their children's Internet access at home.”
“Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.”
“Any drug can be used successfully, no matter how bad it's reputation, and any drug can be abused, no matter how accepted it is. There are no good or bad rugs; there are only good and bad relationships with drugs.”
“The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.”
“Life is like a confused teacher...first she gives the test and then teaches the lesson”

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