Light cannot enter a dark room without illumining it. ― Matshona Dhliwayo

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Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths. — Drew Barrymore

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I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first. I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

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A dull, dark, depressing day in Winter: the whole world looks like a Methodist church at Wednesday night prayer meeting. _ H. L. Mencken

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When I buy a new book, I always read the last page first, that way in case I die before I finish, I know how it ends. That, my friend, is a dark side.

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I’m a black woman who is from Central Falls, Rhode Island. I’m dark skinned. I’m quirky. I’m shy. I’m strong. I’m guarded. I’m weak at times. I’m sensual. I’m not overtly sexual. I am so many things in so many ways and I will never see myself on screen. And the reason I will never see myself up on screen is because that does not translate with being black.

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In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.

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She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.

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Every person that comes into our life comes for a reason; some come to learn and others come to teach.

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Do not allow your anger to control your reason, but rather your reason to control your anger.

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