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Actually, you can be bad at something...but if you love doing it, that will be enough. - August Boatwright

Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
Novelist
Writer
Sylvester
Georgia
August
Actually
Enough
Something
Love

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I said, If I was a Negro girl- He placed his fingers across my lips so I tasted his saltiness. We can't think of changing our skin, he said. Change the world-that's how we gotta think.
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It's your time to live, don't mess it up.
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Probably one or two moments in your whole life you will hear a dark whispering spirit, a voice coming from the center of things. It will have blades for lips and will not stop until it speaks the one secret thing at the heart of it all. Kneeling on the floor, unable to stop shuddering, I heard it plainly. It said, You are unlovable.
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You can go other places, all right - you can live on the other side of the world, but you can't ever leave home
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Sometimes you want to fall on your knees and thank God in heaven for all the poor news reporting that goes on in the world.
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Still everyone, including the abbot, had said that he was running away from his grief. They'd had no idea what they were talking about. He'd cradled his grief, almost to the point of loving it. For so long he refused to give it up, because leaving it behind was like leaving her.
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It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back.
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In the photograph by my bed my mother is perpetually smiling on me. I guess I have forgiven us both, although sometimes in the night my dreams will take me back to the sadness, and I have to wake up and forgive us again.
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A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants to take me.
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We walked along the river with the words streaming behind us like ribbons in the night.
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Just to be is holy, just to live is a gift.
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Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.
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You can't stop your heart from loving, really -- it's like standing out there in the ocean yelling at the waves to stop.
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I vividly remember the summer of 1964 with its voter registration drives, boiling racial tensions, and the erupting awareness of the cruelty of racism. I was never the same after that summer.
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There is nothing perfect...only life.
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I worried so much about how I looked and whether I was doing things right, I felt half the time I was impersonating a girl instead of really being one.
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It was the in-between time, before day leaves and night comes, a time I’ve never been partial to because of the sadness that lingers in the space between going and coming.
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There is no place so AWAKE and ALIVE as the edge of becoming.
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He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God something.
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How often do we do that, he wondered--look at someone and fail to see what's really there?
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