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21 " Take deep breaths, keep yourself calm, and do not borrow trouble. "
― Laila Ibrahim , Golden Poppies (Freedman/Johnson, #3)
22 " There is no need to think of the worst possible thing; it will only cause you unnecessary suffering. "
23 " Ordinary pleasures are sweeter after the pain of loss. "
24 " Maybe every generation needs to believe they will end the trampling, as if it had not been thought of before. Without that certain and foolish hope, I don’t believe we could go on. "
25 " do not borrow trouble. "
26 " It nice to know life gonna keep going.” Her head rolled from side to side. “Your babies gonna see things I don’ even know how to dream about. "
27 " You eat from trees you did not plant and are obliged to plant trees you will not eat from. "
28 " Sadie gazed at May, asleep in her arms, fully trusting in Sadie to care for her. She "
29 " She felt her understanding loosen and then come back together in a new way. "
30 " Our life will be better without him than with "
31 " For all our children we must plant the seeds of a liberty tree so that they may eat the fruit of justice we will never taste. "
32 " I thought my education would protect us—like forged armor too strong for the evils of hatred to penetrate. But I was wrong. Maybe every generation needs to believe they will end the trampling, as if it had not been thought of before. Without that certain and foolish hope, I don’t believe we could go on. "
33 " The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States "
34 " transformed by grief. "
35 " You ate the fruit of freedom from a tree you ain’t planted. You know that, don’ you?” Mama "
36 " honor his memory better by finding hope rather than giving in to despair. "
37 " notice the beauty in each day and do all the good we can with the gift of our lives. "
38 " As Momma said, it was the cost of loving. "
39 " She’d never been outnumbered by people of another race. As a child in Oberlin, she had worshipped and gone to school in a racially mixed community, but she hardly remembered that. Their Methodist congregation in Oakland was composed of only White people, most of whom were native-born. And while her high school had students from all over the world, including China, there was only one Negro, and most of the students were Caucasian. "
40 " Sounding defensive, Emily justified, “Willie went to get a job at the Pullman Company, expecting to follow in his father’s footsteps as a coal man. He was told he was in the wrong office and directed to a different department. There he was given a job as a conductor, which pays three times as much as his father makes. They had mistaken him for being White.” She shrugged. “He’s passing? "