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Samuel L
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If you cannot build a life in your own country, how will you do so in another?
This really made me think...I completely agree with it, but also see merit in finding a place that feels right (or more right) for you and your family.
“She seemed so happy, so at peace, and I wondered how anybody around me could feel that way when liquid fire was raging inside me, when fear was mingling with hope and clutching itself around my ankles.”
― Purple Hibiscus
― Purple Hibiscus
“Come to the edge," he said.
They said, "We are afraid."
Come to the edge," he said.
They came.
He pushed them...and they flew.”
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They said, "We are afraid."
Come to the edge," he said.
They came.
He pushed them...and they flew.”
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“the time is always right to do the right thing”
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“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”
― The Song of the Lark
― The Song of the Lark
“There are people, she once wrote, who think that we cannot rule ourselves because the few times we tried, we failed, as if all the others who rule themselves today got it right the first time. It is like telling a crawling baby who tries to walk, and then falls back on his buttocks, to stay there. As if the adults walking past him did not all crawl, once.”
― Purple Hibiscus
― Purple Hibiscus
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