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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents,’ said Miss Maudie.

And other times there would be tenderness and holding-close liek a warm bath, and hands stroking my hair and brow, and the words carved about the cathedral of my childhood: 'He's like all the other children. He's a good boy.

Kyrie ! The radiance of the intellect. I ought to profess Greek, the language of the mind.

In the course of this life I have had a great many encounters with a great many people who have been concerned with matters of consequence.

It is hateful to me to tell a story over again, when it has been well told.

He literally glowed; without a word or a gesture of exultation a new well-being radiated from him and filled the little room.

She had made him think he could do anything. Nobody else took him seriously. But she made him believe that he could do whatever he wanted.

They’ll read and sing a sacred song,And make a prayer both loud and long,And teach the right and do the wrong,Hailing htthe brother, sister, throng,With words of heavenly union.

about the hell white people give colored folks, without even stopping to think that they’re people, too.

There is no question about it now. I'm in love.

Quando surgiu a que cedo desponta, Aurora de róseos dedos

Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever.

He looked very old. He looked, James thought, getting his head now against the Lighthouse, now against the waste of waters running away into the open, like some old stone lying on the sand; he looked as if he had become physically what was always at the back of both of their minds—that loneliness which was for both of them the truth about things.

what still more shocking outrages were perpetrated upon his mind! with all his noble powers and sublime aspirations, how like a brute was he treated, even by those professing to have the same mind in them that was in Christ Jesus! to what dreadful liabilities was he continually subjected!

Its when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win but sometimes you do.

The world around me and my past seem far away and distorted, as if time and space were taffy being stretched and looped and twisted out of shape.

It's like some folks has the smooth, pretty boards to build a courthouse with and others dont have no more than rough lumber fitten to build a chicken coop. But's it's better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy courthouse...

Πόσο βουβά τ'αστέρια, ανέσπλαχνα, στον ουρανό αρμενίζουν, κι εμείς στα βάθη μαύρου πηγαδιού, καραβοτσακισμένοι,του κάκου απάγρια σέρνουμε φωνή και κράζουμε: ''Βοήθεια''--ποτέ του αστέρι δεν ξεστράτισε, στη γης ψυχή να σώσειΜόνο το τρίτο μάτι ανέλπιδο τον ουρανό αγναντεύει κι ουδέ να κλάψει καταδέχεται μουδέ σκεπή ζητά του'αναμεσός στα φρύδια τ'άσπλαχνα του λυτρωμένου ανθρώπου γαλήνιο αλέθει στροβιλίζοντας σαν άλεσμα τον κόσμο'κι όλα γεννιούνται κι αφανίζουνται σ'ένα βλεφάρισμα του.

I had a woman up here last week to look at my feet, and when she gave me the bill you'd of thought she had my appendicitus out.

It may, perhaps, be fairly questioned, whether any other portion of the population of the earth could have endured the privations, sufferings and horrors of slavery, without having become more degraded in the scale of humanity than the slaves of African descent.