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I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.

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James McBride

There are two responses to really awful things. One is to lament and say, "Oh my God, oh lord. " And the other is to laugh at it a little bit, try your best to deal with it and, if you can, forget about it as soon as possible.

Forget, God, Lament, Laugh, Laughing, Trying
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God is the color of water. Water doesn't have a color.

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I asked her if I was black or white. She replied "You are a human being. Educate yourself or you'll be a nobody!

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You have to choose between what the world expects of you and what you want for yourself.

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Music and writing do fold together in the sense that you have to have a certain level of skill in order to execute your ideas and you need a medium. The idea of improvisation is one that many writers fall into, and I improvise a great deal when I'm writing, but there's a structural framework that I'm working around, and that takes more time than the actual writing. Once the characters get to yapping and talking, they'll move from one room to the next, and I just have to make sure that the house is built. That's really hard, that's the kind of thing that sits with you all day long.

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There's such a big difference between being dead and alive, I told myself, the greatest gift that anyone can give anyone else is life. And the greatest sin a person can do to another is to take away that life. Next to that, all the rules and religions in the world are secondary; mere words and beliefs that people choose to believe and kill and hate by. My life won't be lived that way, and neither, I hope, will my children's.

Believe, Children, Difference, Gift, Hate
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