"I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's universal for everybody."

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Mara Brock Akil

#Writing Quotes #Black Quotes #Black Women Quotes

“Keep God's covenant in your trials; hold you by His blessed word, and sin not; flee anger, wrath, grudging, envying, fretting; forgive a hundred pence to your fellow-servant, because your Lord hath forgiven you ten thousand talents: for, I assure you by the Lord, your adversaries shall get no advantage against you, except you sin, and offend your Lord, in your sufferings.”
“The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect the innocent.”
“My one aim and concentrated purpose shall be and is to show that women can learn, can reason, can compete with men in the grand fields of literature and science . . .”
“Bach takes you to a very quiet place within yourself, to the inner core, a place where you are calm and at peace.”
“American Lives Are Not More Important Than Other People's Lives”
“Proving yourself in a field where the casualty rate is so notoriously high is an ongoing challenge.”
“Once desire was turned on, combustion gave it a life of its own. Once it was turned on it became a raging wildfire, uncontrollable and uncontainable, the type of conflagration that had to be allowed to burn itself out.”
“Spiritual lust causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Himself who gives the answer.”

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