Julia
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“Anything that works against you can also work for you once you understand the Principle of Reverse.”
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were able to live at all. I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.”
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“As I ate she began the first of what we later called “my lessons in living.” She said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors. She encouraged me to listen carefully to what country people called mother wit. That in those homely sayings was couched the collective wisdom of generations.”
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“Can't Do is like Don't Care. Neither of them have a home.”
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“Darkness fueled by the fear of hunger and reverence of greed could choke the world. Or maybe more of us, the We, could exist. May We know the power of the choice to become many in one, fleshed and all.”
― The We and the They: A Dystopian Oral History
― The We and the They: A Dystopian Oral History
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