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1 " If you don't annoy your big sister for no good reason from time to time, she thinks you don't love her anymore. "
― Pearl Cleage , What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day (Idlewild, #1)
2 " Discomfort is always a necessary part of enlightenment. "
3 " Sometimes you meet yourself on the road before you have a chance to learn the appropriate greeting. Faced with your own possibilities, the hard part is knowing a speech is not required. All you have to say is yes. "
4 " the problem with knowing is that it takes away the possibility of pretending! "
5 " What looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight. "
6 " you can't know the meaning of the lesson until class is over! "
7 " When you're young, there's a whole lot of stuff you say you'll never do. Once you get a little older, the list tends to get shorter. "
8 " what looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight! "
9 " old habits are hard to break, but not impossible! "
10 " What looks like crazy on an ordinary day, looks a lot like love when you catch it in the moonlight. "
11 " sometimes you meet yourself on the road before you have a to learn the appropriate greeting! "
12 " I know once you repent, Jesus himself isn't big on punishment, but according to all the Old Testament stories, I ever heard, his was not above it "
13 " You know I love Brother Buddha, but until he reincarnates as a black man in America, I think we better go with what we know.” Joyce "
14 " If you have to take a stand, home’s the best place to do it,” he said, and his voice was as soothing as the music. "
15 " Discomfort is always a necessary part of the process of enlightenment. "
16 " I felt like I almost understood. What was important and what was not. What was worth the time and effort and what was just a bunch of bullshit. And the more I looked at Eddie looking back at me, the more it was starting to make sense. Not all of it, but a little. Just a little, and at this point, that was all I needed. "
17 " almost doesn’t matter what black community you go in now, the problems are exactly the same. The kids are angry. The men are shell-shocked. The women are alone and the drugs are everywhere. "