Relinquishing the urge to fix everything for everyone else was a character flaw identified in counseling. Sammie was learning it wasn’t her job to ensure that those she cared about didn’t make mistakes. Sometimes messing up wasn’t a bad
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“I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season.”
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“When you don’t do your job, you get fired. That’s your warning.”
― Big Daddy Sinatra: There Was a Ruthless Man
― Big Daddy Sinatra: There Was a Ruthless Man
“Men can love you and still want to fuck other bitches. Your job is to keep him so satisfied so that he is too caught up in you to sleep around.”
― Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Side Chicks
― Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Side Chicks
“Animosity in fact loves, but in a different sense. Meaning it loves in the same way that, as it is often said, misery loves company. And just as love seeks unity, so does hatred crave uniformity.”
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