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Fri 31 Jul 2020

Progress

Posted by PJ under progress, quote of the day, winning and losing
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Random quote of the day:

“I learned long ago that winning doesn’t always mean you get the prize. Sometimes you get progress, and that counts.”

―Stacey Abrams, Our Time Is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Thu 30 Jul 2020

Bones

Posted by PJ under bones, change, love, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.”

―Walter Mosley, Blue Light

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Wed 29 Jul 2020

Heroism

Posted by PJ under heroes, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.”

—Arthur Ashe, as quoted by the Arthur Ashe Institute, June 2, 2020

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Tue 28 Jul 2020

Naked

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, risk
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Random quote of the day:

“A lot of people refuse to do things because they don’t want to go naked, don’t want to go without guarantee. But that’s what’s got to happen. You go naked until you die.”

―Nikki Giovanni, quoted in Black Women Writers at Work by Claudia Tate

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Mon 27 Jul 2020

Leaders

Posted by PJ under leadership, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Choose your leaders
with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward
is to be controlled
       by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool
is to be led
by the opportunists
who control the fool.
To be led by a thief
is to offer up
your most precious treasures
       to be stolen.
To be led by a liar
is to ask
to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant
is to sell yourself
and those you love
into slavery.”

—Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Fri 24 Jul 2020

Conquerors

Posted by PJ under courage and fear, dictators, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“But there are none so frightened, or so strange in their fear, as conquerors. They conjure phantoms endlessly, terrified that their victims will someday do back what was done to them—even if, in truth, their victims couldn’t care less about such pettiness and have moved on. Conquerors live in dread of the day when they are shown to be, not superior, but simply lucky.”

―N.K. Jemisin, The Stone Sky

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Thu 23 Jul 2020

Disadvantaged

Posted by PJ under black lives matter, justice, poverty, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Disadvantaged white people are not erased by discussions of disadvantages facing people of color, just as brain cancer is not erased by talking about breast cancer. They are two different issues with two different treatments, and they require two different conversations.”

―Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Wed 22 Jul 2020

Elite

Posted by PJ under democracy, poverty, quote of the day, wealth
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Random quote of the day:

“This country has always been run by elite, and it’s an elitist democracy. And that’s not a radical concept. It’s elitist democracy. When people talk about democracy, they don’t talk—really talk about participatory democracy, until the point that we get us at Election Day.”

—Danny Glover, Democracy Now! August 28, 2008

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Tue 21 Jul 2020

Wanda

Posted by PJ under gay, identity, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Being gay is harder than being black….I didn’t have to come out black. I didn’t have to sit my parents down and tell them about my blackness.”

—Wanda Sykes, I’ma Be Me

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Mon 20 Jul 2020

Dictator

Posted by PJ under democracy, dictators, leadership, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“We call them strongmen because that’s their goal, is to appear strong. But actually there is so much more strength in the willingness to lead a true democracy. You are strong because you can hear dissent. And it is not strong to gas people and to stand in front of a building with a bible. That’s not strength, that is a performance.”

—Sherrilyn Ifill, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, interview, CBS News, June 7, 2020

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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