33 Julius Lester Quotes on Hurt, Silence and Empathy - Quotes.pub

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To write and not tell the truth? That would be death for any writer. But more, it would be death to the imagination. And if the imagination dies, what would happen to the souls of children?

...part of the mind's job was to cast doubt on what the heart knew to be true, and the heart, because it had no words, often lost the argument

The Autobiography of God Quotes

Often, the human animal dresses terror in rage, and expresses both in a way unlike either.

Fear Quotes / The Autobiography of God Quotes

di lahat ng payomakakabutipara sa 'tindahil di man lahat ng naranasanng iba..ay kagaya ng eksaktongnararanasan ng bawat isa.

To Be a Slave Quotes

Faith is not something that one has; faith is something that one practices at the very moment in your life when you really don't believe anything, and you're in the worst kind of despair.

Just because you're bron to someone, it doesn't mean you belong to them.

Pharaoh's Daughter: A Novel of Ancient Egypt Quotes

Perhaps one of the writer's tasks is to weave himself into others' pain.

When Dad Killed Mom Quotes

... the object of learning was not to build a better mousetrap but to ask a better question.

Learning Quotes / The Autobiography of God Quotes

The young accept the extraordinary as normal because they do not compare their lives with those of others when everyone is like them.

Age Quotes The Autobiography of God Quotes

Stagolee was, undoubtedly and without question, the baddest nigger that ever lived. Stagolee was so bad that the flies wouldn't even fly around his head in the summertime, and snow wouldn't fall on his house in the winter. He was bad, jim.

Black Folktales Quotes

Love happened. Love came to show you that you could be more than you could ever imagine, because love forced you out of the narrows of yourself and thrust you into a vastness that stretched from one end of time to the other. Nothing mattered except being in the presence of love, the greatest beauty of all.

Cupid: A Tale of Love and Desire Quotes

....the racial divides in the United States will not be overcome until lynchings of all kinds are as painful to nonblacks as they are to blacks, until each of us become guardians of the sufferings history has bequeathed us.

Guardian Quotes

While the subject matter is lynching, on a deeper level, this novel is about identity. Whom and what we identify ourselves with determines our characters, determines who we are, and what we do.

Guardian Quotes

Books, and especially fiction, do not proceed from ideas. They are born from feelings

When Dad Killed Mom Quotes

To give good hugs you have to have some soft places. —Jeremy Richards

When Dad Killed Mom Quotes

He took the box but did not avail himself of a tissue. She understood. Sometimes it was comforting to feel the wetness of grief's tears on your face.

Grief Quotes Tears Quotes The Autobiography of God Quotes

I write because the lives of all of us are stories. If enough of those stories are told, then perhaps we will begin to see that our lives are the same story. The differences are merely in the details.

What would they do if I said I hurt so much I feel like I want to die?—Jeremy Richards

When Dad Killed Mom Quotes

There was an end to weeping. Mourning, however, ebbed and surged but never ceased flowing.

Sorrow Quotes The Autobiography of God Quotes

Dying ain't important. Everyone does that. What's important is how well you do your living.

But there are times when a tree can no longer withstand the pain inflicted on it, and the wind will take pity on that tree and topple it over in a mighty storm. All the other trees who witnessed the evil look down upon the fallen tree with envy. They pray for the day when a wind will end their suffering. I pray for the day when God will end mine.

Guardian Quotes

Some wounds go so deep that you don't even feel them until months, maybe years, later.

When Dad Killed Mom Quotes

Goodness was not a trait you acquired; it was a value you practiced when you were on the verge of doing evil.

Evil Quotes / Goodness Quotes The Autobiography of God Quotes

Being a failure at living your own life as best as you can is better than being a success living the life somebody else says you should live.

Guardian Quotes

If I canot know your name, may I light a lamp so I can see your face?'If you sould ever see my face, you will lose me forever.' Why?' Psyche wanted to know. 'Are you ugly? Are you afraid I won't love you if I see your face?'Perhaps I am afraid that if you see my face, it will be THAT that you will love and not me.' I understand, believe me. I know what that feels like.

Cupid: A Tale of Love and Desire Quotes

It ain't how long you know somebody that means anything. It's what that person mean to you in your heart.

Day of Tears Quotes

Just because she's dead it doesn't mean I stopped loving her or that she stopped loving me. It's just her body that left. The love didn't.—Jenna Richards

When Dad Killed Mom Quotes

We remember with our emotions. The things that were important in our emotional life, that's what we remember.

When Dad Killed Mom Quotes

But I want you around even when I don't need you. —Jeremy Richards

When Dad Killed Mom Quotes

I'm tired of thinking and I'm really tired of Feeling.—Jenna Richards

When Dad Killed Mom Quotes

History is not just facts and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another's pain in the heart our own.

History Quotes / Empathy Quotes

Silence was not the absence of sound but was itself a sound that could be loud or soft, soothing or disturbing, complex or simple.

Silence Quotes The Autobiography of God Quotes

How can I love you if I don't know what hurts you?

Love Quotes / Hurt Quotes The Autobiography of God Quotes