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#1

“Your daddy and me named you Otha. It means 'wealth'. You were your daddy's treasure from the time you were born until he died. He used to say there were rubies buried deep inside of you. Remember, baby, don't never let a man mine you for your riches. Don't let him take a pickax to that treasure in your soul. Remember, they can't get it until you give it to them.”
― Cynthia Bond, Ruby

tags: a-woman-s-treasure, motherly-advice, relationship-advice

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#2

“The food, though seasoned a little heavily with judgement, went down just fine.”
― Cynthia Bond

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#3

“Ephram broke through. “You kiss me, woman! Don't let sorrow steal 'way truth. Don't blaspheme who we is.”
― Cynthia Bond

tags: afro-american-fiction, romance

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#4

“The idea that the commodification and suffering and forced labor of African Americans is what made the United States powerful and rich is not an idea that people necessarily are happy to hear. Yet it is the truth.”
― Edward E. Baptist, The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

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#5

“As parents and guardians, we have to dissect what our children go through very carefully, and we have to look at each angle because as we all know, lies can’t live forever. We have to remind our children that they are important to us. We have to teach them how to stand their ground and reassure them that they will not have to stand alone.”
― Charlena E. Jackson

tags: bullying-quotes, determination-quotes, happiness-quotes, inspirational-quotes, love-quotes, movement-quotes, parents-and-children, peace-quotes

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#6

“Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood.”
― C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

tags: holy-places, paganism

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#7

“There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.”
― George Gordon Byron

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#8

“The voice of a Black woman should always be HERSELF ...

No edits - no erasure - no pressure - no expectations - no additions - no intruders”
― Malebo Sephodi

tags: african-feminist, african-women-quotes, african-women-voices, black-women, black-women-author, black-women-quotes, black-women-writers, writing

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#9

“Witches don’t look like anything. Witches are. Witches do.”
― Franny Billingsley, Chime

tags: witches

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#10

“But when fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed. It settles in the way an old friend will settle into your favorite chair and take out his pipe and light it and then fill the afternoon with stories of places he has been and things he has done since last he saw you.”
― Stephen King, ’Salem’s Lot

tags: september

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#11

“Autumn...the year's last, loveliest smile."

[Indian Summer]”
― John Howard Bryant

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#12

“For wherever you need to go - and then some.
The world needs more healers”
― Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin and the Healer

tags: celeana-sardothien, healer, innish, yrene-towers

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#13

“To me, a witch is a woman that is capable of letting her intuition take hold of her actions, that communes with her environment, that isn't afraid of facing challenges.”
― Paulo Coelho

tags: action, challenge, commune, environment, intuition, witch

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#14

“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
― Rumi

tags: brokenness, healing, scars, suffering

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#15

“Do you know, I had almost lost faith in the goddess? I almost stopped believing in Her. But I realized I had to become something. I had to take what was done to me and use it to make myself into what I wanted to be. And I wanted this. And when I called Her, the goddess came.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians

tags: faith, mother-goddess

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#16

“The process of reconciliation implies that people who want to engage in interfaith cooperation should be prepared to reflect critically on their own religious tradition. They should also contemplate what place their own religious tradition assigns to people of other faith traditions. (by Cilliers, Ch. 3, p. 52)”
― David R. Smock, Interfaith Dialogue and Peacebuilding

tags: interfaith-dialogue, religion, religious-differences, spirituality

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#17

“There are some people who see a great deal and some who see very little in the same things.”
― T H Huxley

tags: seeing-things-in-a-different-way

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#18

“Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat......Forgiveness does not create a relationship. Unless people speak the truth about what they have done and change their mind and behavior, a relationship of trust is not possible. When you forgive someone you certainly release them from judgment, but without true change, no real relationship can be established.........Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive. But should they finally confess and repent, you will discover a miracle in your own heart that allows you to reach out and begin to build between you a bridge of reconciliation.........Forgiveness does not excuse anything.........You may have to declare your forgiveness a hundred times the first day and the second day, but the third day will be less and each day after, until one day you will realize that you have forgiven completely. And then one day you will pray for his wholeness......”
― William P. Young, The Shack

tags: forgiveness

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#19

“Forgiveness has nothing to do with absolving a criminal of his crime. It has everything to do with relieving oneself of the burden of being a victim--letting go of the pain and transforming oneself from victim to survivor.”
― C.R. Strahan

tags: forgiveness, pain, self-perception, survivor, victim

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#20

“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.”
― Thomas Szasz

tags: forgiveness, inspirational, naivety, wisdom

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#21

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

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#22

“When a person assumes that his or her revelation is the only true one, it only says that this person has had very few religious revelations and hasn't realized how many there are.”
― Margot Adler, Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America

tags: pagan, paganism, religion, wicca, witchcraft

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#23

“The truth is, what you do matters. What you do today matters. What you do every day matters. Successful people just do the things that seem to make no difference in the act of doing them and they do them over and over and over until the compound effect kicks in.”
― Jeff Olson, The Slight Edge

tags: everyday-challenge, life-lesson

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#24

“You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.”
― Terence McKenna

tags: life-lesson, motivation

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#25

“If there's a thing I've learned in my life it's to not be afraid of the responsibility that comes with caring for other people. What we do for love: those things endure. Even if the people you do them for don't”
― Cassandra Clare

tags: life, life-lesson, love

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#26

“I rather have a pastor that committed every horrible sin and repented, than a pastor that has no place of reference to preach redemption to a packed chapel full of sinners.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: be-real, being-real, being-relatable, biting-humor, christian-humor, life-lessons, non-expert, pastors, preaching-without-experience, relatable, religions, sad-but-true, sermons, shameless, unrelatable, writing-without-experience

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#27

“Feeling at peace, however fragilely, made it easy to slip into the visionary end of the dark-sight. The rose shadows said that they loved the sun, but that they also loved the dark, where their roots grew through the lightless mystery of the earth. The roses said: You do not have to choose. ”
― Robin McKinley, Sunshine

tags: balance, dark, light, magic, reassurance, roses, shadows

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#28

“I feel the nights stretching away
thousands long behind the days
till they reach the darkness where
all of me is ancestor.”
― Annie Finch, Spells: New and Selected Poems

tags: ancestors-quote, halloween, pagan, samhain, witch

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#29

“Witchcraft is an empowering practice that any person can learn, cultivate, and personalize. It is all about stepping outside of our mundane world and choosing to take on a perspective of mysticism and reverence for nature, life, and the energetic forces of this world. But what makes witch-craft simply intoxicating is that it’s about appreciating the world around us. It’s not just about what we can see; it’s about everything in between. It is the love for spirits, messages, other-worldliness, unexplainable things, mysterious connections, and the universal system of checks and balances. That is witchcraft,”
― Tonya A. Brown, The Door to Witchcraft: A New Witch's Guide to History, Traditions, and Modern-Day Spells

tags: magic, spells, spellwork, witch, witchcraft

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#30

“Create a sacred space to learn more about your body and mind, go on a date with yourself and explore emotions, sensation, desires, dreams, and accept yourself as you are. By spending some time getting to know yourself better, you will know what you have to offer and, it will be easier to ask for what you want.”
― Nityananda Das, Divine Union

tags: as-you-are, asking, date, desires, emotions, sacred-space, sensations

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