"You smiled then, and your whole face changed with it. It kind of lit up, like there were sunbeams coming from inside you."

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Source : Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.11, Scholastic Inc.

Lucy Christopher

#Smile Quotes #Faces Quotes #Kind Quotes

“White Privilege is the other side of racism. Unless we name it, we are in danger of wallowing in guilt or moral outrage with no idea of how to move beyond them. It is often easier to deplore racism and its effects than to take responsibility for the privileges some of us receive as a result of itâ€¦ once we understand how white privilege operates, we can begin addressing it on an individual and institutional basis.”

Source : "White Privilege: Essential Readings on the Other Side of Racism". Book by Paula Rothenberg, 2002.
“The challenges in this place are real and sometimes very difficult, but I've learned to slow down and look for beauty in my days, for the mysteries and blessings woven into everything, into the very words we speak.”
“Men outlive their love, but they donâ€™t outlive the consequences of their recklessness.”
“The sky was so clear that the starlight cast shadows, and so many sparkles and glitters and glints appeared above us that it looked like something really expensive had been dropped and shattered in heaven - God's Steuben ashtray, maybe.”
“We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.”
“It's an artist's right to rebel against the world's stupidity.”
“You are what you are most profoundly thankful for, and what you love.”
“There are a lot of very brilliant scholars who believe the reason we have incomplete science on evolution is that there is a higher power involved in this.”

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