"I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro."

-- William Christopher Handy

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“As believers, we are running the race together. We are connected by our faith in God and our love for the world that He sent Christ to save. So if one gets weak, we carry them. We aren't called to stop moving forward. We aren't called to criticize each other. No, we are called to encourage each other, to reach down and carry each other, and to keep moving.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jesse Duplantis Ministries from May 24, 2015
“How many others were walking around and not even knowing that someone far away cared for them? Imagine all that love floating in the air, waiting to land on someone's life!”
“In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that's ever happened to me.”

Source : "Molly Sims on Fashion, Motherhood and Staying Healthy an Interview by Robert Piper". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter what public, or what pretty girl wanted it to be thus or thus; but to write solely as I myself thought best, and as it gave me pleasure.”
“If the moon and earth were not retained in their orbits by their animal force or some other equivalent, the earth would mount to the moon by a fifty-fourth part of their distance, and the moon fall towards the earth through the other fifty-three parts, and they would there meet, assuming, however, that the substance of both is of the same density.”
“I do like what Alicia Keys and John Legend are doing. With their music, you keep your clothes on.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“After ten years in therapy, my psychologist told me something very touching, he said, â€œno hablo ingles.â€”
“I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.”

Source : Margaret Mitchell (2007). “Gone with the Wind”, p.1445, Simon and Schuster

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