"When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it."

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Source : Willie Morris (2012). “Yazoo: Integration in a Deep-Southern Town”, p.27, University of Arkansas Press

Willie Morris

#Home Quotes #Heart Quotes

“you don't always have to hold your head higher than your heart”

Source : Song: Hope, Album: Sleep Through The Static, 2008
“Learning how to shine a pair of shoes to me was like if you could do, you were like you were on your way to having abilities and skills as to be able to spit-shine a pair of shoes like they're patent leather. You're a bad dude. To spit-shine a pair of shoes. So, even to that small detail, that aided me and assisted me in becoming the artist that I am. My uncles' sense of style, their type of ties they used. The way they wore their suits, big and huge and baggy. The way they did their haircuts with the side burns. All of that.”
“In boxing, if you think you will lose..you're already halfway there.”

Source : Lennox Lewis @LennoxLewis, twitter.com. January 07, 2012.
“Today the white child is sold for two dollars a week to the manufacturers.”
“The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.”
“Those who've been rescued from sin are best able to help in the rescue of others.”
“Love. Healing. Help. Hope. The power of Christ to counter all troubles in all timesâ€”including the end of times. That is the safe harbor God wants for us in personal or public days of despair. That is the message with which the Book of Mormon begins, and that is the message with which it ends, calling all to 'come unto Christ, and be perfected in him' (Moroni 10:32).”
“I think people should give in to what they feel like doing at the time and be a raw animal.”

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