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“The Lord has called me to obedience, though not always to success.”

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“A good writer knew when not to write. Anybody could type. Not that I was a good typist; also I couldn't spell and I didn't know grammar. But I knew when not to write. It was like fucking. You had to rest the godhead now and then.”

Book:Women

Source: Women

“If God makes you wander, keep calm, don’t worry and go by His rules for He will surely show you what will make you wonder!”

Believe In God Trust In God Wandering Trying Times Wandering Life Trust And Obey

Author:Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Leave your legacy--not in possessions or accolades--but in moments. Moments that matter.”

Faith Legacy Live Out Loud Moments That Matter

Book:Common Stones: A glimpse into several different worlds, in an effort to become more acquainted with our own

Source: Common Stones: A glimpse into several different worlds, in an effort to become more acquainted with our own

“Confident women know the difference between a man that keeps them around because they are in love with them vs. keeping them around because they are use to them.”

Empowering Women 101 Doormats Know The Difference

Author:Shannon L. Alder

“What you verbalize, you internalize.”

Insperational Internalize Insperational Thoughts Verbalize

Author:Evinda Lepins

“Culture is like a forest. The seeds are your core values. Once they take root as behaviours, they can grow into trees, populating your cultural forest. Bad seeds produce unhealthy forests, infertile, and plagued by infestations. Good seeds produce a healthy forest and ecosystems that support life. One is sustainable, the other is simply not.”

Values Culture Community Behaviour Community Building Sustainable Toxic Culture Culture Matters

Book:Save Your City: How Toxic Culture Kills Community & What to Do About It

Source: Save Your City: How Toxic Culture Kills Community & What to Do About It

“Here they learn the rest of the lesson begun in those soft houses with porch swings and pots of bleeding heart: how to behave. The careful development of thrift, patience, high morals, and good manners. In short, how to get rid of the funkiness. The dreadful funkiness of passion, the funkiness of nature, the funkiness of the wide range of human emotions. Wherever it erupts, this Funk, they wipe it away; where it crusts, they dissolve it; wherever it drips, flowers, or clings, they find it and fight it until it dies. They fight this battle all the way to the grave. The laugh that is a little too loud; the enunciation a little too round; the gesture a little too generous. They hold their behind in for fear of a sway too free; when they wear lipstick, they never cover the entire mouth for fear of lips too thick, and they worry, worry, worry, about the edges of their hair.”

Pride Shame White Supremacy Funk Black Culture Colorism Toxic Culture

Author:Toni Morrison

“Incivility is the social equivalent of CO2 and leads to a sort of cultural climate change that is very difficult to reverse. Anger, confusion, and a willingness to engage in bullying to get one's way; these are all results of the current hot house climate we find ourselves in.”

Community Climate Change Self Control Civility Community Building Toxic Culture Culture Matters Toxic Community

Book:Save Your City: How Toxic Culture Kills Community & What to Do About It

Source: Save Your City: How Toxic Culture Kills Community & What to Do About It

“I'm uncomfortable with verbs; they expect too much.”

Discomfort Verbs

Book:Eggshells

Source: Eggshells

“I'm a verb, Frank. Verbs don't answer questions.”

Questions Verbs

Book:The Sportswriter

Source: The Sportswriter