"Sometimes it seemed like the truth was a bandy-legged soul who dashed from one side of the world to the other and I could never find him."

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Source : James McBride (2012). “The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother”, p.145, A&C Black

James McBride

#Soul Quotes #World Quotes #Sides Quotes

“You're with me, Sadie. When you're off the clock, you're not my employee. You're my.. Air." I frowned at him. "Your air?" He grinned. "Well, girlfriend seems to be a shallow word for what I feel for you..”
“If you try desperately to hang on to something that used to be a success for you, it's going to go away. You have to change.”
“It is one of the blessings of wilderness life that it shows us how few things we need in order to be perfectly happy.”

Source : Horace Kephart (1910). “The Book of Camping and Woodcraft: A Guidebook for Those who Travel in the Wilderness”
“When you love someone, you treat them well.”
“People have power to make a difference in their lives.”
“I am so fresh in soul and spirit that life gushes and bubbles around me in a thousand springs.”
“That two bodies press convulsively together, man and woman, he fertilizing her, he giving her a budding life, or he planting a seed, a seed of life in her womb - Oh God. I think this God-given idea is so enormous, so eternal, so endlessly wise - that people should not be allowed to depict it in art!!”
“All I want to be is, someone that makes, new things and, thinks about them.”

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