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“You is kind. You is smart. You is important.”
― The Help
― The Help
“Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.”
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“Ugly live up on the inside. Ugly be a hurtful, mean person.”
― The Help
― The Help
“To gaze into another persons face is to do two things: to recognise their humanity and to assert your own.”
― Someone Knows My Name
― Someone Knows My Name
“Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.”
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
― A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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