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    Susan Wingate
    “[When asked about Writing Conferences]

    "You meet people that will change your life.”
    ― Susan Wingate, Drowning
    tags: award-winning-author, fiction-novel, inspiring, reading, women-s-stories
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    Susan Wingate
    “The satisfaction I feel from finishing another story is tantamount to, say, crossing the finish line for the career marathoner.”
    ― Susan Wingate, The Deer Effect
    tags: movtivational, writing-inspiration
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    Susan Wingate
    “Bravery in a fictional character is one thing--it's easy to imagine and easy to write. Bravery in real life offers many challenges. We want to believe we will be brave if a situation requires us to. But if we over-think it, we will certainly fail. One simply needs to act toward the best possible result rather than to ponder all of the possibilities.”
    ― Susan Wingate, The Deer Effect
    tags: being-different, bravery, courage-in-life, fearlessness, inspirational-living, underdog
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    Susan Wingate
    “Women are interesting characters. Their very nature breeds mystery.”
    ― Susan Wingate, Drowning
    tags: mothers-and-daughters, relationships-between-women, women-s-fiction, women-s-strength
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    “Writing without revising is the literary equivalent of waltzing gaily out of the house in your underwear.”
    ― Patricia Fuller
    tags: editing, fantasy-author, writing
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    Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious
    “Tell me, what is it you plan to do
    with your one wild and precious life?”
    ― Mary Oliver
    tags: poetry
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    Mary Oliver
    “Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”
    ― Mary Oliver
    tags: box, darkness, gift, love
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    The leaders and followers of the Harlem Renaissance were every bit as intent on using
    “The leaders and followers of the Harlem Renaissance were every bit as intent on using Black culture to help make the United States a more functional democracy as they were on employing Black culture to 'vindicate' Black people.”
    ― Aberjhani, Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance
    tags: african-american-history, african-american-intellectuals, african-american-leaders, best-leadership-practices, black-culture, black-history-month, black-leaders, civil-disobedience, democracy-in-america, education, faith-in-the-american-people, followers, followership, harlem-renaissance, harlem-renaissance-historians, heroes-of-the-harlem-renaissance, historical-accountability, historicization, history-of-democracy, leaders, leadership, leadership-strategies, leadership-styles, national-history-day, patriotism, postered-poetics-by-aberjhani, race-relations-in-america, teaching-the-harlem-renaissance, united-states-of-america, vindication, web-du-bois
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    Maya Angelou
    “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
    ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    tags: 1970, inspirational, stories, writing
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    Dr. Seuss
    “I will not eat them in a house, i will not eat them with a mouse,i will not eat them in a box i will not eat them with a fox, i will not eat them here of there i will not eat them anywhere, I do not like green eggs and ham i do not like them sam i am”
    ― Dr. Seuss, Green Eggs and Ham
    tags: food
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