"I cannot forget my mother. [S]he is my bridge. When I needed to get across, she steadied herself long enough for me to run across safely."

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Source : Renita J. Weems (1993). “I Asked for Intimacy: Stories of Blessings, Betrayals, and Birthings”, Innisfree Press

Renita J. Weems

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“The Lord does not measure out our afflictions according to our faults, but according to our strength, and looks not what we have deserved, but what we are able to bear.”
“I like coffee exceedingly...”
“A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.”
“How can we dare to predict the behavior of man? We may predict the movements of a machine, of an automaton; more than this, we many even try to predict the mechanisms or "dynamisms" of the human psyche as well. But man is more than psyche.”
“There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, "now what?”
“Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.”
“If marriage were only bed, we could have made it.”
“This moon man right here stands for a lot more. This is the most important record out of all of them. Gay rights are human rights, there is no separation.”

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