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Take My Hand
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Our arrogance was a shield against the kind of disdain that did not have the capacity to even conceive of Black intellect.
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
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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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“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
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“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”
― Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life | Fiftieth Anniversary Edition
― Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life | Fiftieth Anniversary Edition
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