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“A lot of us who were from Lizzy in particular, those who were in the front line of leadership, we were not drinkers or smokers. We liked to party and have fun, go to the dance/nightclubs, and we would take our tool [gun]. If we see fellas we had to deal with, then we dealt with them. When you look at it, Scrooge was never a drinker or a smoker. I knew he would drink his Guinness every now and then, but other than that, that was it. Then there was Troit, he never used to drink nor smoke. And I could call off a lot of fellas who never used to drink nor smoke, and yet they were die-hard gangsters. Then he stopped and asked me, Do you used to drink and smoke? I just smiled and answered, No. Satisfied with himself, Apples said with passion, “My point exactly. When we were gangbanging out there, that was our drug. It was the lifestyle itself that got us high. Shelton ‘Apples’ Burrows reform gang leader”

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“When my son Lowell was eight years old, one day he and I had just finished playing. Tired and exhausted, we were lying on the bed talking. He sat up in the bed and started to trace his finger over the scar behind my neck. He asked me with concern in his voice, ‘Daddy, how you got this cut behind your neck?’ I hesitated for a while, wondering how much I should tell him, or if I should even tell him at all. I decided to tell him some of it, leaving out the part about the shooting. So I told him, ‘I got that from fighting with one of my friends.’ Lowell didn’t respond right away. After a moment of silence and tracing his finger over the scar, my son said something to me that I had never even considered up to that point. He said, ‘Daddy, your friend tried to kill you!”

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“Il mal di grammatica si cura con la grammatica, gli errori di ortografia con l’esercizio dell’ortografia, la paura di leggere con la lettura, quella di non capire con l’immersione nel testo, e l’abitudine a non riflettere con il pacato sostegno di una ragione strettamente limitata all’oggetto che ci riguarda, qui e ora, in questa classe, durante quest’ora di lezione, fintanto che ci siamo.”

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“Imparare a soffrire è difficile. (…) Imparate ad ascoltare la voce della vita quando si fa sentire! Imparate a guardare quando il sole del destino scherza con le vostre ombre! Imparate il rispetto per la vita! Imparate il rispetto per voi stessi! (…) soffrire rende tenaci, soffrire tempra. (…) Perché l’azione, la buona e radiosa azione, amici miei, non viene dal fare, non deriva dall’attivismo, non è frutto della diligenza e del martellare. Essa cresce solitaria sui monti, cresce sulle cime, dove sono silenzio e pericolo. Sgorga dal dolore… (…) Io vi parlo della solitudine. Solitudine è la via lungo la quale il destino vuol portare l’essere umano a se stesso. Solitudine è la via che l’essere umano teme massimamente.”

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