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What a child does not know and does not want to know of race and colour and class, he learns soon enough as he grows to see each man flipped inexorably into some predestined groove like a penny or a sovereign in a banker's rack. Kibii, the Nandi boy, was my good friend. Arab Ruta (the same boy grown to manhood), wo sits before me, is my good friend, but the handclasp will be shorter, the smile will not be so eager on his lips, and though the path is for a while the same, he will walk behind me now, when once, in the simplicity of our nonage, we walked together. ↗


— Beryl Markham


#colonial-society #discrimination #inequality #africa

A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman. ↗


— Louisa May Alcott


#politeness #fashion

Never start a sentence with the words 'No offense. ↗


— Gretchen Rubin


#kindness #offensive #politeness #tact #fun

Too many writers are trying to write with too shallow an education. Whether they go to college or not is immaterial...a good writer needs a sense of the history of literature to be successful as a writer. ↗


— James Kisner


#writing #education

I regained my soul through literature after those times I'd lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets. ↗


— Roman Payne


#europe #fortune #fortunes #gypsies #gypsy

It was a time I slept in many rooms, called myself by many names. I wandered through the quarters of the city like alluvium wanders the river banks. I knew every kind of joy, ascents of every hue. Mine was the twilight and the morning. Mine was a world of rooftops and love songs. ↗


— Roman Payne


#literature #payne #roman #rooftop-soliloquy #love

Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women. ↗


— Mustafa Kemal Atatürk


#politics #turk #women #creativity

She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness... Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places, where she roamed as freely as the wild Indian in his woods... The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers—stern and wild ones—and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss. ↗


— Nathaniel Hawthorne


#intellect

If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist. ↗


— Charles Baudelaire


#words #writing #literature

Don’t just teach your children to read… Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything. ↗


— George Carlin


#children-s-literature #literature






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