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I had to wait till adulthood before I heard the name James Cone or read about Black liberation theology. But by the time I learned of Black Jesus and his liberating power, I knew I had already met him at ten years old, in a Baptist church
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“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
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“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
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“The world's big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.”
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“In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.”
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“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
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