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Thank you that you didn't allow the bed I lay on last night to be my cooling board, nor my blanket my winding sheet. Guide my feet this day along the straight and narrow, and help me to put a bridle on my tongue.
We learned the times tables without understanding their grand principle, simply because we had the capacity and no alternative.
She used to add, with a smirk that unprofane people can't control when venturing into profanity, “and wash as far as possible, then wash possible.”
Although there was always generosity in the Negro neighborhood, it was indulged on pain of sacrifice. Whatever was given by Black people to other Blacks was most probably needed as desperately by the donor as by the receiver. A fact which made the giving or receiving a rich exchange.
Of course, I knew God was white too, but no one could have made me believe he was prejudiced.
Religion and race
language is man's way of communicating with his fellow man and it is language alone which separates him from the lower animals.”
She said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.
Childhood's logic never asks to be proved (all conclusions are absolute).
