As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.
Alice Walker
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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.
Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.
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In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.
'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.
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If you take Christ out of Christianity, Christianity is dead. If you remove grace out of the gospel, the gospel is gone. If the people do not like the doctrine of grace, give them all the more of it.
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The preacher's garment is cut according to the pattern of that of the hearers, for the most part.
We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.
