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Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert

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“You have some queer friends, Dorothy,' she said.

The queerness doesn't matter, so long as they're friends,' was the answer”
― L. Frank Baum, The Road to Oz

tags: friendship, queer

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“A good friend of mine once said, "I have never met a bigot who was a reader as a child.”
― Marion Dane Bauer, Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence

tags: book, inspirational, peace

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“It's essential to keep moving, learning and evolving for as long as you're here and this world keeps spinning”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

tags: learning, life, lifelong-learning, motivational-quotes, rasheed-ogunlaru-quotes, self-development, spinning, teaching, wisdom, world

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“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

tags: prejudice, pride, vanity

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“It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

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