"And I know now that all the time I was trying to get out of the dust, the fact is, what I am, I am because of the dust. And what I am is good enough. Even for me."

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Source : Karen Hesse (1997). “Out of the Dust”, p.222, Scholastic Inc.

Karen Hesse

#Dust Quotes #Trying Quotes #Facts Quotes

“If all the white people who claim they don't hate us would ever get together and do something to the whites who claim they hate us, we'd see some action. Talk is cheap, if white people didn't want to have a South African situation ... there'd be none. If white people in America didn't want segregation, there'd be none ... it is the man who allows him to lynch who is never seen.”
“I'm kinda like a needle in a haystack right now cause I haven't blown up yet.”
“The Bible just said â€˜Thou shalt not killâ€™, then told hundreds of stories of people killing each other and becoming heroes, like David with Goliath.”
“Foreign visitors . . . how impressed you all are with foreign visitors! But they come in many different varieties.”
“Qhuinn took a step forward, with the intention of stepping in, in the event the Brother locked hands on the SOBâ€™s skinny neck: Someone should probably catch the head before it bounced all over their hostsâ€™ rugs. And the deadweight of the body. Seemed only hospitable.”
“In my mind, so-called "cultures of innovation" really boil down to one word: curiosity.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“God can take the good, bad and the bitter and create a masterpiece called your destiny.”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 26, 2014
“I think President Barack Obama came to office with quite fundamental understandings in his mind about what's possible and what's not possible in the Middle East. The first, I would say, revolutionary breakthrough that he introduced is that the Middle East doesn't matter to American geostrategy as much as we think.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

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