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Favorite Quotations
Lumière:
"Diversity is not an abnormality but the very reality of our planet.
The human world manifests the same reality and will not seek our permission to celebrate itself in the magnificence of its endless varieties.
Civility is a sensible attribute in this kind of world we have; narrowness of heart and mind is not."
“When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him,
he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.”
~ Chinua Achebe
Lumière:
"When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men
and a discharge for loving one."
~Epitaph of Leonard P. Matlovich, 1988
Brown Eyes:
Some quotations from Christina G. Rossetti
“For there is no friend like a sister, in calm or stormy weather, to cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.”
“Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.”
“Silence is more musical than any song.”
"Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.”
Brown Eyes:
"Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.”
-Alice Walker
Lumière:
“If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.”
~ Audre Lorde
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