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Too many new writers dress up old cliches. — Christopher Fowler

I don't feel like I've done anything extraordinary but take my little light and shine it in darkness. — Leymah Gbowee

It was not an unusual site to see Negro tenant farmers crossing the intersection of Spring and Barbrick on the way to the cotton warehouse — Nancy B. Brewer

Regardless of whom you pray to, during war our experiences as a community and as mothers are the same. — Leymah Gbowee

Sometimes when I'm bored, I like to people watch. And I got to a touristy area and I play this game I just made up. I call it Lesbian or Midwestern? — Bonnie McFarlane

I'm a serious optimist. I come from a country where you have little to be hopeful for, and so you have to always be an optimist. — Leymah Gbowee

There is something in this world that every individual can do. God has created all of us with something unique to contribute. — Leymah Gbowee

Whoever has experienced near-death, knows how gracious, it is to be alive. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The exchange of sympathy for gratitude is the most princely thing! — Elizabeth Barrett Browning

It is no flattery to give a friend a due character; for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as reprehension. — Plutarch

Don't stop, echoes the older Liberian lady's voice. Don't ever stop.
My answer to her: I never will. — Leymah Gbowee

If I'm not moved by my own words, how can I expect my readers to be? — Eliza Green

Don't wait for a Gandhi, don't wait for a King, don't wait for a Mandela. You are your own Mandela, you are your own Gandhi, you are your own King. — Leymah Gbowee

At 17, the first time I saw a dead body, I froze. By 31 it was a natural occurrence for me, and no group of people should live like that. — Leymah Gbowee

It may be doubted whether any repentance is genuine which is not repentance for sin rather than sins — Augustus Hopkins Strong

You are only as strong as your training partners, and your success is dependent on them. — David Figueroa-Martinez

How you shape your attitude is not a small part of how you shape your life ... it is the only part. — Neale Donald Walsch

If any changes were to be made in society it had to be by the mothers. — Leymah Gbowee

The world is upside down, it's going to take a lot of hands to turn it right side up. — Leymah Gbowee

You cn't be suspicious of a tree, accuse a bird or squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet — Hal Borland

When women gather, great things will happen. — Leymah Gbowee

Here's to losing Emerson, and finding Em again! I raised the shot glass in the air. — Kimberly Lauren

It's time for women to stop being politely angry. — Leymah Gbowee

You can tell people of the need to struggle, but when the powerless start to see that they really can make a difference, nothing can quench the fire. — Leymah Gbowee

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors. — Francis Bacon

You cannot say you've achieved equality until EVERYONE is equal and has equal opportunities! — Leymah Gbowee

I'm now on a journey to fulfill the wish, in my tiny capacity, of little African girls. — Leymah Gbowee

Leadership is standing with your people. People say you have to live to fight another day, but sometimes you have to show you are a true leader. — Leymah Gbowee

If you are serving justice to one person, those who have been affected should also be served some form of justice. — Leymah Gbowee

I liked the trichotomy, that's the only thing I ever liked. — Gore Vidal

I just want to do really good work. — Chaske Spencer

Women are the ones that bear the greatest burden. We are also the ones who nurture societies. — Leymah Gbowee