"Life is just like a book. Only after you've read it do you know how it ends. It is when we are at the end of life that we know how our life ran. Mine, until now, has been black. As black as my skin. Black as the garbage dump where I live."

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Source : Carolina Maria De Jesus (1990). “Beyond All Pity”

Carolina Maria de Jesus

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“A leader has to show the face his team needs to see.”
“No one in my writers' room can wear sweatpants.”
“Children's reading and children's thinking are the rock-bottom base upon which this country will rise.”
“Sometimes I apologize. It started that way and we never did change it.”

Source : "Douglas Engelbart Dies At 88, Invented Computer Mouse". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, Laura Sydell, www.npr.org. July 4, 2013.
“I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.”
“And silence sounds no worse than cheers After earth has stopped the ears.”
“I love firing guns. It's an amazing feeling - so sexy and powerful.”
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty”

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