Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

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All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

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From: Poems To My Girls

I
How can Humanity
look the deer
in
the face?

How can Mommy,
having erected
my fence?

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Every small, positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

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Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

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I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

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How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

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How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers' names.

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Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception.

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Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

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