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21 " But even more important was the idea that, at any moment, we all had the awesome and underutilized power to simply let go of our past and step beyond it. "
― Charles M. Blow , Fire Shut Up in My Bones
22 " I would often recall one of my mother’s sayings: You could stay in hell for a little while if you knew that you were going to get out. "
23 " Building the steps would have been such a simple thing. He could have done it. He should have done it. The not-doing spoke volumes. "
24 " only children know God. Children see God every day; they just don’t call it that. It’s the summer sky painted with cumulus clouds by day and sequined with a million stars by night. It’s the sweet whispers of sweet gum trees and the sounds riding the tops of honeysuckle-scented breezes. Children feel God stuffed into brown fluffy dogs with stitches strong enough to withstand a good squeeze, and on the lips of round women who can’t get enough sugar from Chocolate. "
25 " For a moment, I was free again. And that was the thing. I felt free only when I could separate myself from myself, when I could imagine that I was distinct from my body and life. There in the ethereal nothingness, in the quiet space of my mind, I found peace. "
26 " But they were different. Weary, not sweet. The skin above Jed’s eyes fell soft, releasing the worries before they could stick. "
27 " The not-doing spoke volumes. "
28 " Buffalo Soldiers in Italy: Black Americans in World War II "