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Been in the Storm So Long (Pulitzer Prize Winner): The Aftermath of Slavery

by Leon F. Litwack

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Melissa’s Quotes

“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.”
― William Morris

tags: interior-decorators

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“There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.”
― Bette Davis

tags: champagne, drinking

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“When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh

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“Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together.”
― Elizabeth Taylor

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“The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. And these qualities have little to do with success as we have defined it.”
― David W. Orr, Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children for a Sustainable World

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