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• “Learn from your past and be better because of your past,” she would say, “but don’t cry about your past. Life is full of pain. Let the pain sharpen you, but don’t hold on to it. Don’t be bitter.” And
• She’d tell me not to worry. She always came back to the phrase she lived by: “If God is with me, who can be against me?”
• understand. In America you had the forced removal of the native onto reservations coupled with slavery followed by segregation. Imagine all three of those things happening to the same group of people at the same time. That was apartheid.
• “even if he never leaves the ghetto, he will know that the ghetto is not the world. If that is all I accomplish, I’ve done enough.”
• “Because he’s a piece of you,” she said, “and if you don’t find him you won’t find yourself.”