Julius Lester Quotes

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But there are times when a tree can no longer withstand the pain inflicted on it, and the wind will take pity on that tree and topple it over in a mighty storm. All the other trees who witnessed the evil look down upon the fallen tree with envy. They pray for the day when a wind will end their suffering. I pray for the day when God will end mine.

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Goodness was not a trait you acquired; it was a value you practiced when you were on the verge of doing evil.

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Just because she's dead it doesn't mean I stopped loving her or that she stopped loving me. It's just her body that left. The love didn't. —Jenna Richards

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Books, and especially fiction, do not proceed from ideas. They are born from feelings

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Being a failure at living your own life as best as you can is better than being a success living the life somebody else says you should live.

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Some wounds go so deep that you don't even feel them until months, maybe years, later.

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I'm tired of thinking and I'm really tired of Feeling. —Jenna Richards

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The young accept the extraordinary as normal because they do not compare their lives with those of others when everyone is like them.

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Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or disturbing, complex or simple.

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To be a slave was to be a human being under conditions in which humanity was denied. They were not slaves. They were people. Their condition was slavery.

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Often, the human animal dresses terror in rage, and expresses both in a way unlike either.

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The object of learning was not to build a better mousetrap but to ask a better question.

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Part of the mind's job was to cast doubt on what the heart knew to be true, and the heart, because it had no words, often lost the argument

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