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I will never understand why ppl have the need to fit "in" in a society where they really dont belong... Even if u do fit in.. Is that what one would really want?? Will it give one a pleasure knowing deep inside that they are changing themselves? I say wake up and smell the coffee once a cat always a cat.. A cat will never turn into a dog even if it acts like a dog
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--New Orleans, November 1910
Four weeks have passed since I left, and still
I must write to you of no work. I've worn down
the soles and walked through the tightness
of my new shoes calling upon the merchants,
their offices bustling. All the while I kept thinking
my plain English and good writing would secure
for me some modest position Though I dress each day
in my best, hands covered with the lace gloves
you crocheted--no one needs a girl. How flat
the word sounds, and heavy. My purse thins.
I spend foolishly to make an appearance of quiet
industry, to mask the desperation that tightens
my throat. I sit watching--
though I pretend not to notice--the dark maids
ambling by with their white charges. Do I deceive
anyone? Were they to see my hands, brown
as your dear face, they'd know I'm not quite
what I pretend to be. I walk these streets
a white woman, or so I think, until I catch the eyes
of some stranger upon me, and I must lower mine,
a negress again. There are enough things here
to remind me who I am. Mules lumbering through
the crowded streets send me into reverie, their footfall
the sound of a pointer and chalk hitting the blackboard
at school, only louder. Then there are women, clicking
their tongues in conversation, carrying their loads
on their heads. Their husky voices, the wash pots
and irons of the laundresses call to me.
I thought not to do the work I once did, back bending
and domestic; my schooling a gift--even those half days
at picking time, listening to Miss J--. How
I'd come to know words, the recitations I practiced
to sound like her, lilting, my sentences curling up
or trailing off at the ends. I read my books until
I nearly broke their spines, and in the cotton field,
I repeated whole sections I'd learned by heart,
spelling each word in my head to make a picture
I could see, as well as a weight I could feel
in my mouth. So now, even as I write this
and think of you at home, Goodbye
is the waving map of your palm, is
a stone on my tongue.
Natasha tretheway
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Originally posted by AdamThe enemy cant be demoralised as they dont fear death, and if they cant be demoralised they cant be defeated
What for?? You don't see people conquering their fears or declaring their lack of it by jumping off cliffs, do you??
An animal sees another one get hurt by doing something, learns from it and refrains from repeating the same mistake but not an afghan.
I am no bird, and no nest ensnares me.
non commercial would cost less if he was in charge himself which he plans on doing. right now it's n herat but soon it will be in qanadahar.
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You wouldn't defend a foolish statement like that if you were capable of understanding my point.
I questioned the qoute not the origins of the model in the poster.
I am no bird, and no nest ensnares me.
non commercial would cost less if he was in charge himself which he plans on doing. right now it's n herat but soon it will be in qanadahar.
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Literally worked non-stop today. So tired. Head is pounding.
So much for barakat in Ramadan..lol
Though its always nice speaking in Pakhto to customers, especially when they are from Wardag as well. Seem to be a lot of Wardags & Afghans in this area.---
To advise others is an easy matter, the difficulty is accepting advice -- since it is bitter for those who follow their
own inclinations and desires.
-Imam al Ghazali
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and these frigging mosquito bites are pissing me off as well.
Not really the fact that I have them but that i'm the only one here who does. Got this big red blob on my right arm & elsewhere on my body. Never thought i'd need to get anti-bug cream here in the UK.---
To advise others is an easy matter, the difficulty is accepting advice -- since it is bitter for those who follow their
own inclinations and desires.
-Imam al Ghazali
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haris, make sure you have no containers filled with water, around your home, where the mozzies are breeding.Originally posted by Haris View Postand these frigging mosquito bites are pissing me off as well.
Not really the fact that I have them but that i'm the only one here who does. Got this big red blob on my right arm & elsewhere on my body. Never thought i'd need to get anti-bug cream here in the UK.
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