"It has always been the perogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor."

-- Neil Gaiman

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“I was gonna put him on the bus...I got tired of him talking, it was time for him to go home.”
“Struggles are a part of the sacred sanctification process. There are no soft or slothful ways to become sanctified to the point that we are prepared to live in the presence of the Savior. And there can be blessings in the burdens we bear. As a result of these struggles, our souls are stretched and our spirits are strengthened. Our character becomes more Christlike as we are tried and tested.”
“It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.”
“Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.”
“Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.”

Source : Quoted in Deirdre Mullane, Words to Make My Dream Children Live: A Book of African American Quotations (1995)
“Your own thoughts can be your worst enemy!”

Source : Tae Yun Kim (1994). “The Silent Master: Awakening the Power Within”
“What I love about drafts is the experimental nature of them. The draft is what you know about writing a poem running up against what you don't know about the subject. If you're lucky, you get to surprise yourself.”

Source : "Breaking into Song: An Interview with Cornelius Eady". Interview with Alexis Orgera, www.anmly.org.
“It is living, not thinking, as a feminist that has become the challenge.”

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