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So the 2nd of the 7 is a teenager too? An oversized one tho.
So the 2nd of the 7 is a teenager too? An oversized one tho.
Why did it take two attempts for this manga to get an active thread, especially so misleadingly titled one? I'll never know.
Anyway, this is a solid Suzuki Nakaba read - and that alone implies a lot of enjoyment. Execution is what matters here, and, so far, it has been nothing but satisfyingly pleasant. The world is on its head, your only hope are your former diabolical enemies, their leader is but a wee lewd shota bartender nonchalantly defying any bit of common sense, and the ale has almost run out. Yes please, this is how I want my fantasy comics.
Hork is best character too.
However, in one way or another, he is going to work with the concept of magic, and look forward to it.
Extremely interesting backstory with potential awesome uber elite characters being given by the fourth chapter. Showing a lot of drive and direction. I'm liking this series more and more.
I really like Nakaba's artstyle - and all the over-the-top action scenes he showcases it in don't hurt.
The armor designs in particular have surprisingly detail and texture: they look damn cool. Feels like the Seven Deadly Sins stepped right out of Dark Souls and into a manga.
The series seems to be moving along fairly quickly too! Not many chapters in and already we've found one of the Seven, and will be fighting one of the first bad guys, who seems to be no slouch.
Good. It's nice to read series that don't dawdle about, too.
Isn't supossed to be Lady Diane instead of Lord, or is the same thing in japanese?
It has been only six chapters and Meliodas is already becoming my favorite new protagonist of the year. Lad is a classical trickster. Add to this Nakaba being able to draw comics only in the badass way, and you have every page illuminating with excitement.
We learn Meliodas' sin this time, and it does fit his animal theme. Still no hints to the reason why the Sins haven't aged during all these years and don't look like their estimated, I assume, bounty posters at all.
Hopefully Diane does something next time to establish herself as a character a bit more.
Sin of Wrath? Laaame. Was really hoping Melodias was the Sin of Lust. Would have been way more fitting imo Also I really hope the Sin of Sloth isn't actually dead. That would suck that we'd miss out on an awesome character regardless of how much we see of him in flashbacks.
While I get the appeal of Meliodas' sin being lust, I doubt it would work as one just as well. In comparison to the usual big bad pride, wrath and envy, the other four are relegated to a lower tier being all less cardinal of a deadly sin. Of course, something as conceptual fully depends on execution, but judging by initial impression, a protagonist is better off desribed in a more imposing, even if recognisable, way.
And sure Sloth's alive. "Capital of the Dead" practically screams this.
Yeah but it being Anger is so...predictable. I'm sure it's gonna be handled very interestingly given how Melodias is the most chill dude on the planet indicating thst when he gets angry, shit will get real but still...predictable.
What exactly is predictable about it?
Melodias is always calm so I definitely didn't predict him being "Wrath."
Usually Pride is considered the principal and cardinal of all sins. It's the big one. Wrath can go to anyone, not always a major character.
Pride is the sin that always gets attached to someone important. Wrath? Definitely not always.
Also if you're sure it's going to be handled interesting why are you complaining about it?
I'm not arguing that the execution of it is good. I eagerly await the moment when Melodias snaps and actually gets angry and shit gets really real. But still, the lesser sins like Lust get no love :(
In FMA Lust was a much more interesting character than Pride or Envy, desipte the latter having a major role though.
I don't think Lust was shafted.
Sloth on the other hand..
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Ha, I thought it would have been great if Melodias was Lust. We already get Pride/Wrath being at the forefront of plenty of fiction concerning the seven deadly sins. Would have been an interesting way to play against expectations. I went to a Catholic highschool and vaguely remember Lust being mentioned as the first of the seven anyway. (And Melodias is a dude! How often is lust portrayed by a dude? Would have been great)
Wrath should be fine too though. I actually hope if there's some grandiose internal dissent plotline between the group, it's not headed by Pride. I want some "lesser" sin to shine, gluttony or sloth for example. It's all good so far though.
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Read the first chapter and enjoyed what I read for the most part. I still have absolutely no idea why this is referred to as the spiritual successor to Magico. Outside of being shonen adventure battle manga, is there any similarities between the two? Does romance become a key plot point or something?
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I am really enjoying this manga.
Surprisingly so.
I could easily see it going places.
Reminds me of an early Naruto (before it was crappy) or an early HxH (before the author gave up). Or dare I say it, an early One Piece.
Read the first chapter. Seems pretty good.
Fuck yea talking piggies =3
Someone knows why this isn't in jump? Like got it rejected or does the author tend to introduce unjumplike stuff into his stories?
From my impression this would do pretty well in jump. If I had guess he probably doesn't want to deal with the ultra competition jump has?
9 chapters in it's got enough action per chapter and it always has really good cliffhangers, sure in the big picture it's nothing special right now but boy is it competent. Certainly more so than the likes of bulge, taka-something and some of the other rather forgetable series in jump.
I think he has a contract with Sunday, at least until his popularity drops or gets into a legal battle with the editorial like Makoto Raiku (Gash Bell)
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Snacks have been tricky this week. When I built my meal plan on Tuesday, I decided to just wing it.
Here's winging it.
I covered 1/2 a cup of oats with just enough milk to soak them, sprinkled on cinnamon, and let the concoction sit in the fridge for a couple of hours. Real overnight oats are better, but this worked for an easy snack to fill the void between lunch and dinner.
- 1/2 cup oats: $0.14 ($1.79 for container)
- milk: $0.06 ($.3.49/gl)
- Total: $0.20
Speaking of dinner…
Here's the $1.99/lb split chicken breast I found at Publix.
Derek has this thing with bones and his food – he doesn't like the two to mix. So before I cooked the chicken, I cut off all the meat, and saved the bones for broth (already made the broth and plan to save it for chili tomorrow night!). I cut the meat in strips, seasoned the strips with salt and pepper, and baked them for 15 minutes at 375.
Of course, plain chicken strips can be a little boring on their own, so I added just a touch of some of last night's leftover sauce.
The pasta sauce was also a great replacement for the ketchup I was missing for the sweet potato fries.
Fresh produce can be a little pricey sometimes, so I've learned to rely on frozen vegetables recently. They're a great quick grab in the store and have the same nutrients as fresh and taste just as great.
Love these steam-in-a-bag green beans from Publix.
Meal totals:
- split chicken breast: $3.76
- 1/2 cup pasta sauce: $0.30 ($1.49 for jar)
- sweet potatoes: $1.25
- green beans: $1.39
- Total: $6.70
We each ate 1/3 of the the meal, so roughly $2.23 each.
Dessert was the other half of this morning's mango.
- mango: $0.50
Derek's Meals:
- Breakfast: None <– the boy doesn't regularly breakfast during the week 🙁
- Lunch: Leftover lentils <– made a mistake calculating meal cost last night. Probably should have made the numbers 1/4s instead of 1/3s.
- Dinner: above
- Dessert: Granola ($0.40), Milk ($0.16) $0.56
Watched a random movie on Netflix after dinner.
A little slower and sadder than I was expecting, but overall a good movie. 🙂
Time for bed.
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I must comment on the facetime article "Mosby's Mom" in the October 14 Hook.
What happened to Mosby (a dog) was entirely preventable. His owners– if they really loved their pet– would not have allowed him to run onto other people's properties chasing wild animals. Mosby was being a pest. People should not have to put up with other people's pets running all over their property.
It's also time for people to recognize that dogs should not be allowed to harass (and often kill) wildlife. Wild mammals, such as raccoons, skunks, even bears, are not much different from the dogs and cats that have become our pets. We should feel for the skunk that Mosby was chasing just as we feel for the dog that was shot.
Mosby's death was at least more humane than the skunk– it deserved better than to be torn apart by two dogs that should have been kept at home.
The truly tragic aspect of this whole scenario is that it need never have occurred. If people feel they are truly "moms" to their pets, they should care for their pets just as they would their small children.
Pet owners should act responsibly by keeping a watchful eye over their pets instead of letting them run wherever they please, where they could just as easily be killed by a vehicle as by a person fed up with listening to the howling of a hunting dog or the annoyance of dogs barking on his property.
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There always has been something delightfully childlike about the Flight of Conchords – even when the comedy-music duo sang about their "sugar lumps."
The TV scenes of the absurd in which their hapless manager Murray takes attendance at band meetings made the grown men look – and act – like schoolboys. Bret and Jemaine's naïve approach to life in New York – forming a "gang" of misfits for protection, paying rent in the currency of their native New Zealand, believing that Murray actually got them a gig in Central Park – reinforced a certain semi-innocent charm that couldn't quite inure them from their gritty surroundings or reality.
Since the duo officially pulled the plug on their droll and surreal hipsters-meet-the-Monkees HBO show nearly three years ago, Jemaine Clements has turned up in movies, most notable stealing scenes with Russell Brand-like antics in "Dinner for Schmucks." Bret McKenzie penned some great songs for "The Muppets," including the Oscar-winning "Man or Muppet," which has a decidedly Conchords-like feel.
But save for a cameo on "The Simpsons" a couple years ago, the Conchords have been sadly grounded as a team. Our spirits, though, got a welcome Hiphopopotamus-strength boost with the recent news of the duo's reunion of sorts to record a song for a children's charity – offering sweet-and-hilarious proof that the kids-at-heart are all right.
The accompanying video, shown as part of New Zealand's Red Nose Day charity fundraising special, plays like a lost episode of "Flight of the Conchords." Murray's on hand to take attendance – and to introduce his new complicated, multi-level in-box system. Bret and Jemaine interview kids to get inspiration for lyrics – and also field ideas for raising money that range from robbing robbers to convincing parents to have more children so there will be more Tooth Fairy proceeds to raid.
The song, called "Feel Inside (And Stuff Like That)" and performed by the duo with other Kiwi artists, is part parody of and part homage to "We are the World." The faux-soul pop tune is vintage Concords, who remain adept at poking fun at song genres (folk, hip-hop, smooth R&B) while making strong music – and making fun of themselves.
The song is available on iTunes, with proceeds going to the Cure Kids charity. That's a good deed worthy of a high point on Murray's friendship chart. The tune also makes us long for a more permanent return of New Zealand's "fourth most popular guitar-based digi-bongo a cappella-rap-funk-comedy folk duo."
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Using Nevirapine to Prevent Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission During Breastfeeding
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00074412
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : December 15, 2003
Results First Posted : September 16, 2013
Last Update Posted : September 16, 2013
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|Condition or disease
|HIV Infections
|Drug: Nevirapine Drug: Nevirapine placebo
|Phase 3
Breastfeeding provides general health, growth, and development benefits to an infant and significantly decreases the risk of certain acute and chronic diseases. Breastfeeding also decreases financial burden on the mother by decreasing the need for infant formula and health care for the infant. However, clinical evidence has shown that HIV can be readily transmitted through breast milk, although the risk of HIV MTCT over time while breastfeeding has been difficult to determine. Given the many advantages of breastfeeding and the significant obstacles to substituting formula for breast milk in developing countries, there is an urgent need to make breastfeeding by HIV infected women safe. This study will evaluate the safety and efficacy of an extended NVP regimen for prevention of MTCT of HIV through breastfeeding.
This study will last approximately 3.5 years. Mother/infant pairs will be enrolled over a period of 18 to 24 months. During the third trimester of pregnancy, HIV infected participants will receive HIV counseling and the intrapartum/neonatal two-dose NVP prophylaxis regimen to prevent MTCT. Mothers will also be given infant feeding options counseling and information on administering the study drug to the infant. Infants who were randomly assigned to receive a placebo and older than 6 weeks of age as of 08/10/07 OR to receive NVP will continue their treatment assignment. Infants who were randomly assigned to receive a placebo and are 6 weeks of age or less as of 08/10/07 will receive open-label NVP through Day 42 of life. For all other participants, all randomized infants will receive extended NVP through 6 weeks (Day 42) of life. All eligible infants will be randomly assigned to one of two groups at Week 6 following birth. The first group will receive extended NVP treatment; the second group will receive nevirapine placebo. Randomized infants will receive the extended NVP or NVP placebo through the first 6 months of life or until cessation of breastfeeding, whichever occurs earlier. Mothers will be instructed to begin giving their infants their assigned intervention starting at Day 3 to Day 7 postpartum. All mothers and infants outside of the study will be offered the local standard of care antiretroviral (ARV) regimen for the prevention of MTCT, but these ARVs will not be provided by the study.
Follow-up evaluations will be conducted at Weeks 2 and 6 and Months 3, 6, 12, and 18 for mothers, and at Weeks 2, 5, 6, and 8 and Months 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 12, and 18 for infants. Study visits will include physical examinations, blood tests (including HIV tests), and medical histories. Study participants will be followed for up to 3.5 years.
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|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
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|2026 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|Double (Participant, Care Provider)
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|Official Title:
|A Phase III Trial to Determine the Efficacy and Safety of an Extended Regimen of Nevirapine in Infants Born to HIV-Infected Women to Prevent Vertical HIV Transmission During Breastfeeding
|Study Start Date :
|January 2007
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|September 2011
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|November 2011
Experimental: 2A
For infants: extended treatment with NVP
Drug: Nevirapine
10 mg/ml oral suspension taken once daily up to 6 months of age. Dosage will increase throughout study.
Other Name: NVP
Placebo Comparator: 2B
For infants: extended treatment with NVP placebo
Drug: Nevirapine placebo
Oral suspension taken once daily up to 6 months of age
Other Name: NVP placebo
- HIV Infection in Infants Determined to be HIV Uninfected at 6 Weeks Enrolled in Each Arm of the Study [ Time Frame: At Month 6 ]
- Frequency and Severity of Adverse Reactions Among Participating Infants [ Time Frame: 6 weeks through 18 months ]For those infants who were randomized at 6 weeks and who initiated study drug we looked at the frequency and severity of adverse reactions through 18 months of study. The severity of all AEs was graded according to the DAIDS Table for Grading the Severity of Adult and Pediatric Adverse Events. The term severity is described as the intensity grade or level for specific event (i.e. mild, moderate, severe, or life-threatening). Severity is not the same as seriousness.
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- NVP Concentrations in Infants Determined to be HIV-infected and in a Sample of HIV-uninfected Infants [ Time Frame: Week 8 and Month 3 ]Samples for NVP concentration were selected from the Version 3.0 infants who were randomized to NVP at 6 weeks and whose mothers were not on 3 or more antiretrovirals at the time of randomization. All infants HIV-infected by 6 months who met this criteria were selected and matched to HIV-uninfected infants who also met this criteria in a 1:3 ratio. NVP concentrations were measured by high liquid chromatographic/mass spectroscopy from the aforementioned infants plasma samples collected at week 8 and month 3. Median NVP concentrations were compared
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- 18 years of age or older
- HIV infected
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- If baby is not yet born, planning to deliver at a facility where the study is being conducted
- Plan to breastfeed
Exclusion Criteria for Mothers:
- Complications with this pregnancy
- Serious medical condition that would interfere with the study (e.g., that would prevent breastfeeding or adherence to the follow-up schedule), as judged by the on-site clinician
Inclusion Criteria for Infants:
- Born to an HIV infected mother who is eligible for the study
- Weighed at least 2000 grams (4.4 lbs) at birth
- Blood sample obtained from the infant for HIV-1 DNA PCR, CBC with differential, and ALT
- Infants in a multiple birth are eligible only if both/all infants are eligible for the study and assigned to the same study group
- Able to breastfeed (e.g., mother and infant alive with no condition apparent that would prevent breastfeeding)
Exclusion Criteria for Infants:
- HIV DNA PCR positive at birth
- ALT of Grade 2 or higher at birth
- Hemoglobin, absolute neutrophil count, or platelet count of Grade 3 or higher at birth
- Skin rash of Grade 2B (urticaria), Grade 3, or above
- Confirmed or suspected clinical hepatitis
- Serious illness or condition that would interfere with compliance with study procedures
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
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|South Africa
|CAPRISA Umlazi CRS
|Umlazi, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
|Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) CRS
|Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
|Makerere University- JHU Research Collaboration {MUJHU CARE LTD} CRS
|Kampala, Mpigi, Uganda
|Seke North CRS
|Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe
|St Mary's CRS
|Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe
|Study Chair:
|Hoosen M. Coovadia, MD, MBBS
|Centre for HIV Networking (HIVAN), Nelson Mandela School of Medicine, University of Natal
|Study Chair:
|Laura Guay, MD
|Johns Hopkins University
|Study Chair:
|Wafaie Fawzi, MD, PhD
|Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health
|Study Chair:
|Yvonne Maldonado, MD
|Stanford University
|Study Chair:
|Daya Moodley, MSc, PhD
|Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of Natal
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|First Posted:
|December 15, 2003 Key Record Dates
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Dr. Neil Turok, Director of Canada's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI), is pleased to announce the appointment of an additional four eminent international scientists to serve on Perimeter Institute's Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC).
In making the announcement, Dr. Turok stated, "These outstanding scientists will provide crucial guidance as the Institute expands, ensuring that our research and training programs continue to grow and flourish in exciting new directions."
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Brian Greene is a Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Columbia University, where he is co-Director of the Institute for Strings, Cosmology, and Astroparticle Physics (ISCAP). Professor Greene has made groundbreaking discoveries in superstring theory, exploring the physical implications and mathematical properties of the extra dimensions the theory posits. His current research centres on string cosmology, seeking to understand the physics of the universe's first moments. Professor Greene is well known for his work on communicating theoretical physics for general audiences, and his books include The Elegant Universe, which has sold more than a million copies worldwide; The Fabric of the Cosmos, which spent six months on the New York Times Best Seller List; and Icarus at the Edge of Time, A Children's Tale. A three-part NOVA special based on The Elegant Universe won both the Emmy and Peabody Awards.
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Deadspin asks and Bob Kraft delivers. Maybe. After biting on Jerry Jones's double move earlier in the week, Plaxico is finally making his first team visit of the year and may end up with a rival to his two most recent organizations.
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Gearbox's last Borderlands 2 loot chests were such a hit, they decided to make a new version to match the style (aka diamond plated) of the in-game chests in the sequel.
It's a collaboration with Think Geek, and they're only releasing 5,000 of them.
The chests will be stocked with new content, including redeemable in-game legendary weapons or items that will scale to your character's specific level. It also comes with a Goliath mask that you—your real, fleshy self—can wear, as well as a Shift code (found on the back of your mask) to redeem a customizable Goliath head for your in-game self. There's some art in there, too: wanted posters for each of the original vault hunters.
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Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar, on his wife Twinkle's 38th birthday Saturday, called her the woman of his dreams, and says she turned his life into a celebration all the way.
"Today is a very special day because it is the birthday of the person who has made my life a celebration. Happy Birthday Tina (Twinkle), my wife, my friend, mother of my children... in short the woman of my dream," the 45-year-old tweeted.
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My recent post on Why I don't take vitamin D supplements generated a lot of interest and a few misconceptions. In that article, I did not suggest any practical alternatives to taking high dose vitamin D supplements. Here I will suggest a way that may provide the benefits of vitamin D without popping any pills, spending all day in the sun, or ingesting copious amounts of fish.
Some readers got the idea that I believe vitamin D is not beneficial, and that I discount the evidence from studies that show the benefits. I want to dispel that notion. I do acknowledge the key role that vitamin D and the vitamin D receptor (VDR) play in bone mineralization and regulation of innate and adaptive immunity, and among other things. I further acknowledge that many (but certainly not all) studies support an association between higher vitamin D3 levels and reduced incidence of diseases such as cancer.
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Nobody doubts the important role of vitamin D in the body. But are higher levels of a hormone like vitamin D–whether or not provided as a supplement– always a good thing?
My doubts are focused on several points:
- Under-appreciation of the fact that vitamin D is a hormone with diverse and dose-dependent systemic effects, still not fully understood
- Misleading claims that vitamin D supplementation is "equivalent" to vitamin D from sun exposure. While the two forms are chemically identical, levels of vitamin D3 synthesized from sun exposure are self-limiting due to feedback regulation. What happens when we chronically exceed natural limits?
- Inadequate attention to the possible effects of chronic vitamin D supplementation on homeostatic down-regulation of the VDR receptor. See this discussion bv Dr. David Agus of USC medical school.
- Inadequate study of the possible long term adverse effects of chronic vitamin D supplementation. Few studies look beyond 4 years. Hormone replacement therapy was in favor for 50 years before the risks came to light . Things don't necessarily look any more promising when synthetic hormones are replaced bioidentical hormones.
My article created a dilemma for several commenters. These people acknowledged the risks, but nevertheless cited benefits they personally experienced from supplementing with vitamin D–ranging from fewer colds and flu, to relief of autoimmune symptoms, and even lessening of depression.
For these people, a key question remains:
Is there a way to get the benefits of vitamin D supplementation, while avoiding the dependency and risks of taking vitamin D capsules daily for the rest of your life? While I don't have a definitive proven answer to that question, recent research leads me to speculate here that there is a promising approach that is within everyone's reach.
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Here we are, the final blog post from me to you.
It has been an amazing experience finding out what type of fans MMA really has. Reading your comments has been a real eye opener. I greatly appreciate you coming by MMAjunkie.com to voice your opinions, good or bad.
Feel free to come by Twitter (@lewpolley) or lewpolley.ning.com to tell me how you feel.
As we saw in Wednesday's season finale, Chris Cope singlehandedly willed his way to the semifinals and a spot on to the finale's card. Even if everyone was saying he isn't that good or doubted his ability, he silenced his critics and pushed on. His effort and never-say-die attitude placed him here.
With that being said, it was evident that the clock was ticking on this Cinderella story. In his semifinal fight with Ramsey Nijem, he showed good takedown defense and a good ability to get up, which is very important for a non-wrestler. But he lacked the knowledge of positioning or experience to adjust on the fly with coming off the cage or neutralizing control.
You can see flashes of how good Chris could be. He lands good inside leg kicks with decent movement. He avoided damage for the most part. He just suffered from being a bit hesitant in the pocket.
However, Chris has nothing to hang his head about. He did what most thought he couldn't and made it to where most people don't.
Ramsey is a book that you most certainly can not judge by the cover. His methods of breaking tension through constant stripping, awkward back-rubbings and pseudo-feminine celebrations only masked the aggressive nature of a competitor. He remained focused on what he wanted to accomplish and proved it day in and day in the training sessions.
When it was Ramsey's time to compete, he stuck to his bread and butter and made people fight his fight. He pushed the pace and forced people into making bad decisions with pressure. He was never an underdog, but he fought like he had something to prove.
His approach may not have been very diverse, but it was effective. He ended his fight with Chris on a big flurry that hurt him. This was a glimpse of what kind of power Ramsey may have in his hands once he learns to use them precisely.
Tony Ferguson, meanwhile, had a pretty impressive run to the finale – winning with an upkick KO then a well-placed uppercut with a solid finish to a display of various strikes for the duration of a fight.
Based solely on his diversity shown throughout his three fights, I would slightly favor him in Saturday's live finale with Ramsey. The X-factor will be Ramsey's control of distance and control of where the fight takes place.
Tony's fight with Chuck O'Neil provided a good indication that he is looking to take his time to develop different skills and apply them in competition. It will be an interesting matchup with Ramsey to say the least. Can Tony handle Ramsey's pressure and conditioning?
On a side note, any time you make a mistake (as Tony did in the previous episode), the best thing to do is own up to it. There's no need to blame alcohol or anything else for your actions. For Tony to give a half-hearted apology based on him being drunk and or blacking out is not taking responsibility. In fact, it is passing the blame to something out of your control. I hope that one day he sincerely comes to Charlie Rader as a man and tries to atone for his actions.
Chuck was a dark horse who found himself only after adversity and potential failure were staring him in the face. I liked how he regrouped and focused on the things that were right in front of his face. He woke up and realized that his dream was slipping away and it was now or never.
From his fight with Javier Torres to his rematch with Zach Davis, you can tell there was a fire there that was missing before. His desire and realization of his UFC dream gave him the will to fight tooth and nail for what he wanted. He had a good demonstration of striking against Zach and turned up the heat with combinations. His constant pressure and commitment to throwing and letting his hands go landed him in the semifinals.
Chuck's fight with Tony showed that he wanted to be there and he was willing to fight as long as it took to get to the finale. He had a good first round, but he let the momentum shift too much out of his favor. Once he lost the tempo, Tony was able to dictate the remainder of the fight.
My hat goes off to Chuck for turning things around and accomplishing what he did. In his run, he made it to the semifinals, avenged a loss and showed the world he is a competitor. Chuck was a great teammate and friend to the guys of Team Lesnar. I wish the best for him and all the guys of "TUF 13."
Finally, a special message to Junior Dos Santos. Te all make mistakes, and we are all human. One day when this whole situation becomes our past, I am sure that we will be friends again. Time sorts everything, and everything will come to pass.
Lew Polley was an assistant coach for Junior Dos Santos on "The Ultimate Fighter 13." The trainer and fighter is sponsored by DollamurMartialArts.com and PerformanceMMA.com. You can follow him on Twitter (@LewPolley) and his website/fan community lewpolley.ning.com.


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"A black person grows up in this country – and in many places – knowing that racism will be as familiar as salt to the tongue. Also, it can be as dangerous as too much salt. I think that you must struggle for betterment for yourself and for everyone."
"A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing."
"All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike."
"All information belongs to everybody all the time. It should be available. It should be accessible to the child, to the woman, to the man, to the old person, to the semiliterate, to the presidents of universities, to everyone. It should be open."
"All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy – but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that's how I am guided."
"And if a person is religious, I think it's good, it helps you a bit. But if you're not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe."
"Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him."
"As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them."
"At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice."
"At one time in my life, from the time I was seven until I was about 13, I didn't speak. I only spoke to my brother. The reason I didn't speak: I had been molested, and I told the name of the molester to my brother who told it to the family."
"At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn't matter. You said, 'That's an American' because there's a readiness to smile and to talk to people."
"Autobiography is awfully seductive; it's wonderful. Once I got into it, I realized I was following a tradition established by Frederick Douglass – the slave narrative – speaking in the first-person singular, talking about the first-person plural, always saying 'I,' meaning 'we.'"
"Bitterness is cancer – it eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure."
"Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs… I knew that my heart would break if ever I put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts. I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole."
"Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn't want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself."
"Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage."
"Don't get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it's fun!"
"Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don't whine. You can be brought low, that's OK, but don't be reduced by them. Just say, 'That's life.'"
"During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not."
"Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn't be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely."
"Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader."
"Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting a person into your life."
"Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let's see if we can't prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness."
"Every December, I host a tree-trimming party. I serve chili with cornbread and lots of good wine. It's a wonderful party, and it shows how much adults like to play."
"Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity."
"Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you're the funniest person you've ever heard of."
"Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again."
"Find a beautiful piece of art. If you fall in love with Van Gogh or Matisse or John Oliver Killens, or if you fall love with the music of Coltrane, the music of Aretha Franklin, or the music of Chopin – find some beautiful art and admire it, and realize that that was created by human beings just like you, no more human, no less."
"For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place."
"For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books."
"Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience."
"Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I'd listen to Italian music."
"History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again."
"Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: 'I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.'"
"Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes… whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber… they're listening to poetry."
"I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody."
"I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely."
"I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me."
"I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defence when and wherever needed."
"I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water."
"I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn't have to translate."
"I do like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them. But I like – if somebody is going to come into my house and I have not put out the welcome mat, I want to stop them."
"I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says, 'Maya, , it's time.'"
"I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind."
"I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best – I mean, when I'm at my best – of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything."
"I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I'm a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself – all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve."
"I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place."
"I keep a hotel room in my town, although I have a large house. And I go there at about 5:30 in the morning, and I start working. And I don't allow anybody to come in that room. I work on yellow pads and with ballpoint pens. I keep a Bible, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and a bottle of sherry. I stay there until midday."
"I know some people might think it odd – unworthy even – for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people."
"I know that I'm not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don't know how not to."
"I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'm finished. Bye.' And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won't do that."
"I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I'm praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I'm grateful that I'm heard."
"I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me."
"I like chicken a lot because chicken is generous – that is to say, it's obedient. It will do whatever you tell it to do."
"I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings."
"I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry – writing at writing."
"I love a Hebrew National hot dog with an ice-cold Corona – no lime. If the phone rings, I won't answer until I'm done."
"I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced forever by the New Testament. I love the Beatitudes, informing us that the meek shall inherit the earth."
"I love the song 'I Hope You Dance' by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it."
"I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you."
"I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly."
"I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody's ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the 'n' word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren't pretty or they weren't rich or they weren't clever."
"I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me."
"I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is."
"I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too."
"I thank God I'm myself and for the life I'm given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me."
"I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion's den. You can't just play around with all those big cats – you've got to take somebody on."
"I think I have had so much blessing – I've had my brother, who was brilliant – I think my family came closest to making a genius when they made my brother – Bailey was just all of that. He loved me."
"I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they'll do wonders. I count on them."
"I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine… before she realizes she's reading."
"I was a dancer for many years. I was a premier dancer with 'Porgy and Bess,' the opera. And I taught dance some, in different places."
"I was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only all right, I was just right, so I believe that my brain is a good one, and it's lasting me very well."
"I will not sit in a room with black people when the N word is used. I know it was meant to belittle a person, so I will not sit there and have that poison put on me. Now a black person can say, 'Oh, you know, I can use this word because I'm black.'"
"I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it – I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it."
"I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool – and I'm not any of those – to say that I don't write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues."
"I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I'm a human being, too. And I'm on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles."
"I write some country music. There's a song called 'I Hope You Dance.' Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody beat me to it."
"I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right."
"I'm a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I'm even afraid of it – it's a learned affectation and it's just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out."
"I'm a serious aficionada of country music – Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I've even written some songs. They haven't done anything of mine yet. But it's only a matter of time."
"I'm always disappointed when people don't live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change."
"I'm considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I've never been bored in my life."
"I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good."
"I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do."
"I'm happy to be a writer – of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use."
"I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be on my own side."
"I'm just like you – I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it. And I'm trying to be a Christian. I'm always amazed when people walk up to me and say, 'I'm a Christian.' I always think, 'Already? You've already got it?' I'm working at it. And at my age, I'll still be working at it at 96."
"I'm very, very serious – I'm serious enough not to take myself too seriously. That means I can be completely wedded to the moment. But when I leave that moment, I want to be completely wedded to the next moment."
"I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it's serious business."
"I've always written. There's a journal which I kept from about 9 years old. The man who gave it to me lived across the street from the store and kept it when my grandmother's papers were destroyed. I'd written some essays. I loved poetry, still do. But I really, really loved it then."
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
"I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back."
"I've never had a dislike for men. I've been badly treated by some. But I've been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them."
"I've read everything Thomas Wolfe ever wrote; my brother and I memorized whole chapters of 'You Can't Go Home Again' and 'Look Homeward, Angel.'"
"I've still not written as well as I want to. I want to write so that the reader in Des Moines, Iowa, in Kowloon, China, in Cape Town, South Africa, can say, 'You know, that's the truth. I wasn't there, and I wasn't a six-foot black girl, but that's the truth.'"
"If I walked into the kitchen without washing my hands as a kid, I'd hear a loud 'A-hem!' from my mother or grandmother. Now I count on other people to do the same."
"If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent."
"If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don't have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don't have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind."
"If you want what you're saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody's life. Your own, first."
"If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England – you couldn't have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things."
"If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you'll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it."
"If you're a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don't understand talent any more than we understand electricity."
"If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you're the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you're funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity."
"In a long meter hymn, a singer – they call it 'lays out a line.' And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can't wedge a pin between it."
"In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it."
"In all my work, I try to say – 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?'"
"In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it's imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike."
"In the flush of love's light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free."
"Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more."
"Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who've all longed and lost, who've all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you're not really any different from everyone else."
"It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it."
"It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it."
"It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength."
"It's good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers."
"It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything."
"It's still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out."
"It's very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race."
"Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, 'I'd like to write about that.' Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem."
"Living in a state of terror was new to many white people in America, but black people have been living in a state of terror in this country for more than 400 years."
"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope."
"Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops."
"Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up."
"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."
"My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday evening was the missionary meeting. Tuesday evening was usher board meeting. Wednesday evening was prayer meeting. Thursday evening was visit the sick. Friday evening was choir practice. I mean, and at all those gatherings, we sang."
"My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return."
"My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine."
"My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still."
"My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself."
"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style."
"My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God – I thank God every time I think of it – I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult."
"My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors."
"Of course, there are those critics – New York critics as a rule – who say, 'Well, has a new book out and of course it's good but then she's a natural writer.' Those are the ones I want to grab by the throat and wrestle to the floor because it takes me forever to get it to sing. I work at the language."
"On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden."
"Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses."
"One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest."
"One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance."
"Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace."
"Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends."
"Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone."
"Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible."
"Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable."
"Shakespeare – I was very influenced – still am – by Shakespeare. I couldn't believe that a white man in the 16th century could so know my heart."
"Some critics will write ' is a natural writer' – which is right after being a natural heart surgeon."
"Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that's all. So we direct our values to material things."
"That's the biggest gift I can give anybody: 'Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you're doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.'"
"The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned."
"The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance."
"The first decade of the twentieth century was not a great time to be born black and poor and female in St. Louis, Missouri, but Vivian Baxter was born black and poor, to black and poor parents. Later she would grow up and be called beautiful. As a grown woman she would be known as the butter-colored lady with the blowback hair."
"The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes."
"The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart."
"The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bible, is musical, just wonderful. I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is."
"The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society."
"The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you're wrinkled."
"The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can't practice any other virtues consistently."
"The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you – black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight."
"The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed."
"The terrorist action of 9/11 gave birth to President Obama's entry to the White House. Not directly, but indirectly."
"The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That's what I think."
"There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing."
"There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know."
"Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities."
"Though I do manage to mumble around in about seven or eight languages, English remains the most beautiful of languages. It will do anything."
"Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, 'I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.' Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, 'Yes, I deserve it.'"
"To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the wall to make them bounce. That's what Norman Mailer did. That's what James Baldwin did, and Joan Didion did, and that's what I do – that's what I mean to do."
"Until blacks and whites see each other as brother and sister, we will not have parity. It's very clear."
"We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders."
"We are braver and wiser because they existed, those strong women and strong men… We are who we are because they were who they were. It's wise to know where you come from, who called your name."
"We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike."
"We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!"
"We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That's why we paint, that's why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are."
"What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me."
"What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good."
"Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it."
"When I cook for my family on Christmas, I make feijoada, a South American dish of roasted and smoked meats like ham, pork, beef, lamb, and bacon – all served with black beans and rice. It's festive but different."
"When I was 8 years old I became a mute and was a mute until I was 13, and I thought of my whole body as an ear, so I can go into a crowd and sit still and absorb all sound. That talent or ability has lasted and served me until today."
"When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.'"
"When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one – it's the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky – in the big cities, too, for that matter."
"When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich."
"Whenever I want to laugh, I read a wonderful book, 'Children's Letters to God.' You can open it anywhere. One I read recently said, 'Dear God, thank you for the baby brother, but what I prayed for was a puppy.'"
"Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want humility."
"Whenever something went wrong when I was young – if I had a pimple or if my hair broke – my mom would say, 'Sister mine, I'm going to make you some soup.' And I really thought the soup would make my pimple go away or my hair stronger."
"While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation."
"While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man."
"Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history."
"Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning."
"You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive."
"You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'"
"You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, 'I'm a representative.'"
"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."


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Marcia Elaine Walker is a principal consultant at SAS, where she helps clients apply data management and analytics technologies to make better decisions, faster. Her career has revolved around the industrial sector including energy, manufacturing, and mining.
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