Patience is not passive, it is active endurance. - Barbara Smith

"Patience is not passive, it is active endurance."

Barbara Smith Patience

Feminist Activist, Scholar American Born 1946 (age 80)

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"The most important thing is that we continue to question, to seek understanding, and to demand justice."

"Love is not something you find. Love is something that finds you."

"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

"Patience is a virtue I'm still learning."

"I may be a redhead, but I'm not a hothead."

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"Patience is a virtue I never learned."