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Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

I was a tomboy and most of my close friends were male.

When you’re a little kid, you don’t see color, and the fact that my friends were black never crossed my mind. It never became an issue until I was a teenager and started trying to rap.

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

We cannot say that if a child is badly nourished he will become a criminal. We must see what conclusion the child has drawn.

It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school.

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.

I was four years old then, and I think it must have been the next summer that I first heard the voices.