A Quote by Malcolm X

As bad as I was, as much trouble and worry as I caused my mother, I loved her.

Malcolm X

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Malcolm X
American - Activist
May 19, 1925 - February 21, 1965

Worry was my mother's mechanic, her mechanism for engaging with the machinery of living. Worry was an anchor for her, a hook, something to clutch on to in the world. Worry was a box to live inside of, worry a mechanism for evading the present, for re-creating the past, for dealing with the future.

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Erma Bombeck

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The working artist will not tolerate trouble in her life because she knows trouble prevents her from doing her work. The working artist banishes from her world all sources of trouble. She harnesses the urge for trouble and transforms it in her work.

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