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“Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment meted out by the older generation (which had itself confessed to the same crime short years before). The command to grow up at once was more bearable than the faceless horror of wavering purpose, which was youth.”
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“Love casts out fear, for when we know we are loved, we are not afraid. Whoever has God's perfect love, fear is gone out of the universe for him.”
― The Attributes of God: A Journey Into the Father's Heart
― The Attributes of God: A Journey Into the Father's Heart
“I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss”
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“There is nothing a person can't do, and there should be nothing a human being didn't care about. It was the most positive encouragement I could have hoped for.”
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“Although I had no regrets, I told myself sadly that growing up was not the painless process one would have thought it to be.”
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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