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“It is impossible to believe that any of us ever looked like children. I understand, of course, that we were once children. The cloak of time has yet to grow so long that I have surrendered my childhood.”
― Hanif Abdurraqib, There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

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“A spiritual posture that embraces the past while holding the present and future can be found in the word sankofa from the Akan tribe in Ghana. Sankofa means “it is not taboo to go back and fetch what you forgot.”
― Cindy S Lee, Our Unforming: De-Westernizing Spiritual Formation

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“Belief has nothing to do with truth.”
― Percival Everett, James

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“I felt tired of the failures of men. They were always failing in the most basic ways, like looking down or away at the moment when they should be gutsy enough to meet your eye.”
― Percival Everett, James

tags: disappointment, failure, failures, let-down, man, men

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“That noise you are hearing, drowning out the blows of life, is the wind touching the fronds of the thirty or so eighty-foot-tall palm trees encircling the centrally located swimming pool. You have fun thinking this sound might be the Holy Spirit.”
― Tom Hillman, Digging for God