"The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age."

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Source : Margaret Walker (2013). “This Is My Century: New and Collected Poems”, p.74, University of Georgia Press

Margaret Walker

#Fire Quotes #Evil Quotes #Age Quotes

“A person comes into the world with a fist-and a grasp. Yes, we are built to fight one another, but also to embrace. How cleverly we are created.”
“For all kinds of reasons, it is more difficult to track women's lives. Women's words have simply been considered less important, so they have been preserved less often.”

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“It is delightfully easy to thank God for the grace we ourselves have received, but it requires great grace to thank God always for the grace given to others.”
“If you don't imagine, nothing ever happens at all.”
“I don't want to discount talent and ability, but I still maintain that a lot of it is just sheer desire.”
“You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have”
“You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.”
“It's [the word â€œsorryâ€] the most infuriating word in the English language. Just a cheap way to behave badly then shelve responsibility by putting the onus on the other person to be forgiving.”

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