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“So long as we imagine it is we who have to look for God, we must often lose heart. But it is the other way about – He is looking for us.”
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“The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart.”
― The Sacred Romance: Drawing Closer to the Heart of God
― The Sacred Romance: Drawing Closer to the Heart of God
“People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.”
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“The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of all kinds, is the remembrance of some lost bliss that was probably experienced in the womb and can only be reproduced (though we hate to admit it) in death. But who wants to die?”
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“Dr. Simms wanted us to be emotionally connected to our learning, to sit in the pain, the horror, the absurdity of America’s racist history, and to humanize those who dared stand against the system. Dr. Simms made us believe that we could follow that legacy of resistance, but one piece of his advice stood out to me more than all the others. “Ain’t no friends here.”
― I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
― I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness
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Cassie’s 2025 Year in Books
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