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  • I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky.

  • He thinks he's finer than frog hair.

  • For never doubt that those souls who live least by the flesh feel themselves most defiled by its defilement.

  • When they asked for those to raise their hands who'd go down to the courthouse the next day [to vote], I raised mine. Had it up as high as I could get it. I guess I'd had any sense I'd a-been a little scared, but what was the point of being scared. The only thing they could do to me was kill me and it seemed like they'd been trying to do that a little bit at a time ever since I could remember.

    • Fannie Lou Hamer,
    • To Praise Our Bridges: An Autobiography of Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer
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  • ... happiness is more than a tool for survival—at its best moments, it becomes an act of redemption. It allows us to redeem moments that might otherwise have beeen lost to pain or despair ...

  • It's hard to resist a bad boy who's a good man.

  • I reserve my greatest admiration for those who continue to struggle to embrace the whole impossible tangle of snakes that is our society; those who fight to identify and strengthen human connections, and defeat polarizing forces that strain to drive us apart.

  • Law to her was all Greek and turkey tracks.