"But on paper, things can live forever. On paper, a butterfly never dies."

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Source : Jacqueline Woodson (2014). “Brown Girl Dreaming”, p.215, Penguin

Jacqueline Woodson

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“You have to go through cycles of extreme poverty and suffering for a while; they are used to that...They get up early, run hard, rest drink tea, get out and run hard again. Wehn Simon Dirorie gets up at 4 a.m. - I'm dedicated, but I'm not that dedicated.”
“Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling . . .. A fine poem will seize your imagination intellectually-that is, when you reach it, you will reach it intellectually too- but the way is through emotion, through what we call feeling.”
“I'm a very physical person. I like to run and I like to work out.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“That is a question you have to ask the Old Man of the Moon.”

Source : "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon". Book by Grace Lin, www.today.com. July 1, 2009.
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
“Fundamentalist groups like Christian Embassy have infiltrated the very top of the U.S. military and gained positions of influence in the Pentagon.”

Source : "The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture". Book by Darrel W. Ray, 2009.
“In consciousness dwells the wondrous, with it man attains the realm beyond the material, and the Peyote tells us, where to find it.”
“Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth!”

Source : 1822 'Hellas', l.34-7.

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