I was one of the first six black kids to integrate a formerly all-white school. I remember being looked at all the time and people laughing at my hair. I was also very self-conscious about the food I had for lunch. I had egg sandwiches, and the other mothers gave kids fancy stuff like bologna and Marmite. It took about a year to settle in. Petina Gappah
If you can't run, you crawl. If you can't crawl-- you find someone to carry you.
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Joss Whedon
It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood, A beautiful day for a neighbor. Would you be mine? Could you be mine?.. It's a neighborly day in this beauty wood, A neighborly day for a beauty. Would you be mine? Could you be mine?.. <span style="margin:15px;...
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Fred Rogers
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
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Groucho Marx
So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away, And in its place you can install A lovely bookshelf on the wall. Then fill the shelves with lots of books.
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Roald Dahl
Some stories have to be written because no one would believe the absurdity of it all.
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Shannon L. Alder
More Quotes By Petina Gappah
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.
If you don't write it down, then it never happened
Courage is being the only only one who knows how terrified you are.
Danger confronted properly is not something a man must fear.
