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“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“Passion or Addiction? Make a list of your daily”
― Gary Zukav, The Seat of the Soul

“Question: Death, where is thy sting? Answer: Every-fucking-where.”
― Stephen King, Revival

“Experience is a keen teacher;”
― Frederick Douglass, Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass

“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.”
― Frederick Douglass

“You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.”
― Frederick Douglass, Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass

“My long-crushed spirit rose, cowardice departed, bold defiance took its place; and I now resolved that, however long I might remain a slave in form, the day had passed forever when I could be a slave in fact.”
― Frederick Douglass, Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass

“Let others say what they will of the efficacy of prayer, I believe in it, and I shall pray. Thank God! Yes, I shall always pray,”
― Sojourner Truth, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth

“her unwavering confidence in an arm which she believed to be stronger than all others combined could have raised from her sinking spirit.”
― Sojourner Truth, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth

“he was soon drawn into a circle of associates who did not improve either his habits or his morals.”
― Sojourner Truth, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth

“Dreaming of his future, he no longer heard all the things she did not say.”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

“She understands. There is nowhere to go but on. Still, part of her longs to go back”
― Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You

“The disappointment he felt in his daughters sifted down on them like ash, dulling their buttery complexions and choking the lilt out of what should have been girlish voices.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

“As long as your feet are under my table, you’ll do in this house what you are told.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

“In a way she was jealous of death.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

“Boredom, which had begun as a mild infection, now took him over completely.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

“thank God I ain’t never had one of them graveyard loves.”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

“You got a life? Live it! Live the motherfuckin life!”
― Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

“A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.”
― James Patterson, Invisible

“Disease is a fact but not a truth; it is an experience but not a reality.”
― Ernest Shurtleff Holmes, Science of the Mind

“Her color is a cross she will always carry.”
― Toni Morrison, God Help the Child

“as pale and sad as “lite” beer,”
― Toni Morrison, God Help the Child

“So this is what insanity is. Not goofy behavior, but watching a sudden change in the world you used to know.”
― Toni Morrison, God Help the Child

“Correct what you can; learn from what you can’t.”
― Toni Morrison, God Help the Child

“No matter how hard we try to ignore it, the mind always knows truth and wants clarity.”
― Toni Morrison, God Help the Child

“he left her like a skunk leaves a smell.”
― Toni Morrison, God Help the Child

“Changing beliefs changes actions.”
― Nancy Duarte, Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences

“The first draft of anything is shit.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Ideas are not really alive if they are confined to only one person’s mind.”
― Nancy Duarte, Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences

“Customer experience is how your customers perceive their interactions with your company.”
― Harley Manning, Outside In: The Power of Putting Customers at the Center of Your Business