"The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now."

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James A. Baldwin

#Children Quotes #Challenges Quotes #Moments Quotes

“The usual run of children's books left me cold, and at the age of six I decided to write a book of my own. I managed the first line, 'I am a swallow.' Then I looked up and asked, 'How do you spell telephone wires?”
“If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right.”

Source : Joyce Johnson (1999). “Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir”, p.186, Penguin
“My father said, Don't grow up to be a woman, and what he meant by that was, a housewife ... without any interests.”
“My diary is a disaster...I can't spell at all...I'll spell the same word completely differently in the same sentence.”
“We all know that housing prices are going up, but what most people don't realize is that this has become a family problem. Housing prices are rising twice as fast for families with kids.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“A poem is a liminal space that can offer a sensation of belonging. A poem won't bring you a cold beer, but it may offer you a stool where you can sit down and feel momentarily at home. LGBT folks need intergenerational spaces where their lives and experiences are foregrounded.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.”
“I really embrace things that I think people who like music can relate to, they grew up with the same stuff and know the same references so when they hear it being used as a metaphor to something else they'll be like that's unique, or funny or something that's relatable to me.”

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