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Quotes

I’ve decided to add a weekly feature to my blog. I will do a weekly quote and discuss it. If you know me, you know I am… lets call it ‘wordy’. I can remember quotes and have plenty to tell you whenever I feel the need. It’s strange how I can remember the words to hundreds of songs, quotes and more but can not remember what I put on my grocery list!

This week’s quote is one I have loved for a while and was brought to my attention again by a good friend a little over a month ago. It spoke to me very personally, because it reminded me hating someone is doing more damage to me than to them.

“I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.”

Booker T. Washington

It is from his book Up From Slavery (1901), Chapter XI.

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