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| Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations. | | Uncategorized | |
| Living a life is like constructing a building: if you start wrong, you'll end wrong. | | Uncategorized | |
love builds up the broken wall
and straigtens the crooked path.
love keeps the stars in the firmament
and imposes rhythm on te ocean tides
each of us is created of it
and i suspect
each of us was created for it | | Love | |
| Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time. | | Love | |
| love life, engage in it, give it all you've got. love it with a passion, because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it | | Uncategorized | |
| love recongnizes no barriers. it jumps hurdles, leas fences, penetrates walls to arrive at it destination full of hope | | Hope; Love | |
| Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. | | Opportunity | |
| Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity to be otherwise | | Uncategorized | |
| Mrs. Parks is for me probably what the Statute of Liberty was for immigrants. She stood for the future, and the better future. | | Uncategorized | |
| Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. | | Uncategorized | |
| My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. | | Uncategorized | |
| My life has been one great big joke, A dance that's walked, A song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke, When I think about myself. | | Uncategorized | |
| My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors. | | Uncategorized | |
| Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway." | | Nature | |
| Nothing will work unless you do. | | Action | |
| Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God. | | Needs | |
| One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest. | | Courage; Potential | |
| One must know not just how to accept a gift, but with what grace to share it. | | Gifts | |
| Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends. | | Travel | |
| Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible. | | Uncategorized | |
