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• Take risks ... be willing to put your mind and your spirit, your time and your energy, your stomach and your emotions on the line. To search for a safe place, to search for an end to a rainbow, is to search for a place that you will hate once you find it. The soul must be nourished along with the bank account and the resume. The best nourishment for any soul is to create your own risks.

  Jim Lehrer

  Hate, Soul, Risk

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• And this is for Colored girls who have considered suicide, but are moving to the ends of their own rainbows.

  Ntozake Shange

  Girl, Suicide, Moving

  "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide". Choreopoem by Ntozake Shange, 1976.

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• Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Attitude

  Rita Mae Brown (2014). “Rubyfruit Jungle”, p.29, Bantam

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• 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.

  Maya Angelou

  Blessing, Thinking, Clouds

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• But I plucked a new, different, worldly soul for myself -- maybe a soul I found in the spray thrown up by the surge of that distant African river as it plummets onto black rocks and sends up into the sun a permanent arc of a rainbow.

  Alexandra Fuller

  Rocks, Rivers, Soul

  Alexandra Fuller (2014). “Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: Picador Classic”, p.38, Pan Macmillan

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• You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Try to be a rainbow in someone else's cloud. Do not complain. Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Thinking, Clouds

  Maya Angelou (2010). “Letter To My Daughter”, p.7, Hachette UK

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• Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

  Funny, Family, Mothers Day

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• Four Lessons on Life 1. Never take down a fence until you know why it was put up. 2. If you get too far ahead of the army, your soldiers may mistake you for the enemy. 3. Don't complain about the bottom rungs of the ladder; they helped to get you higher. 4. If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Life, Change, Mistake

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• English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows.

  Denis Johnson

  English Words, Empty, Prisms

  Denis Johnson (2003). “Already Dead: A California Gothic”, p.27, Harper Collins

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• …gender is not sane. It's not sane to call a rainbow black and white.

  Kate Bornstein

  Black And White, Gender, Sane

  Kate Bornstein (2013). “Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us”, p.133, Routledge

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• Nobody ever had a rainbow baby until they had the rain

  Jim Croce

  Baby, Rain

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• I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.

  Robert Bridges

  Summer, Garden, Clouds

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• After every storm, if you look hard enough, a rainbow appears.

  Mariah Carey

  Storm, Looks, Enough

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• There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm.

  John H. Vincent

  Sadness, Adversity, Clouds

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 556, 1895.

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• Truth is merely common sense, say the naive realist. Really? Then where,
  precisely, is the location of--a rainbow? In the air? In the eye? In
  between? Or somewhere else?

  Edward Abbey

  Eye, Air, Somewhere Else

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• The human rainbow had been mutilated by machismo, racism, militarism and a lot of other isms, who have been terribly killing our greatness, our possible greatness, our possible beauty.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Greatness, Racism, Isms

  "Eduardo Galeano on Writing, “Historical Amnesia” in Latin America & His Fight Against Cancer". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman and Nermeen Shaikh, www.democracynow.org. May 8, 2013.

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• Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves. They flickered out saying: "It was worth being a bubble, just to have held that rainbow thirty seconds.

  Carl Sandburg

  Two, Curves, Found

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.699, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And as much as I’d like to believe there’s a truth beyond illusion, I’ve come to believe that there’s no truth beyond illusion. Because, between ‘reality’ on the one hand, and the point where the mind strikes reality, there’s a middle zone, a rainbow edge where beauty comes into being, where two very different surfaces mingle and blur to provide what life does not: and this is the space where all art exists, and all magic.

  Donna Tartt

  Art, Believe, Reality

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• You're leaving me, Rainbow Girl.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Girl, Leaving, Leaving Me

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.1312, Dell

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• Love is the very essence of life. It is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Yet it is more than the end of the rainbow. Love is the security for which children weep, the yearning of youth, the adhesive that binds marriage, and the lubricant that prevents devastating friction in the home; it is the peace of old age, the sunlight of hope shinning through death.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Children, Home, Love Is

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.3, Harmony

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• Last night you said you wanted to know what to expect so you could better select your attire. I told you we were going to visit a vampire in a Goth-den tonight. Why, then, Ms. Lane, do you look like a perky rainbow?

  Karen Marie Moning

  Night, Vampire, Looks

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Jul 07, 2014

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• Kindness, it turns out, is hard - it starts out all rainbows and puppy dogs, and expands to include . . . well, EVERYTHING.

  George Saunders

  Dog, Kindness, Puppy

  George Saunders (2014). “Congratulations, by the way: Some Thoughts on Kindness”, p.38, A&C Black

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• At home in South Africa I have sometimes said in big meetings where you have black and white together: 'Raise your hands!' Then I have said: 'Move your hands,' and I've said 'Look at your hands - different colors representing different people. You are the Rainbow People of God.'

  Desmond Tutu

  Moving, Home, Black And White

  "Archbishop Desmond Tutu: Peacemaker in a Diverse Nation". www.csmonitor.com. October 26, 1994.

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• And talking about dark! You think dark is just one color, but it ain't. There're five or six kinds of black. Some silky, some woolly. Some just empty. Some like fingers. And it don't stay still, it moves and changes from one kind of black to another. Saying something is pitch black is like saying something is green. What kind of green? Green like my bottles? Green like a grasshopper? Green like a cucumber, lettuce, or green like the sky is just before it breaks loose to storm? Well, night black is the same way. May as well be a rainbow.

  Toni Morrison

  Moving, Dark, Night

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• I have seen clouds part for the sun. I have seen rainbows. I have seen flowers in the morning, covered in dew, and I have seen sunsets so brilliant with fire they made me want to weep. And I have seen Dan smile at me, his lips still wet from my kiss, and if I had to choose which sight moved me the most I would say it was that one.

  Megan Hart

  Morning, Flower, Sunset

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