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Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

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... my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in.

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Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

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My great-great-great-grandmother walked as a slave from Virginia to Eatonton, Georgia... It is in memory of this walk that I chose to keep and to embrace my "maiden" name, Walker.

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I'm pore, I'm black, I may be ugly and can't cook, a voice say to everything listening. But I'm here.

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One thing that never ceases to amaze me, along with the growth of vegetation from the earth and of hair from the head, is the growth of understanding.

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As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.

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I love my own culture. I love my African-American culture very deeply, and I know it deserves to be honored. You have to be aware that people are suffering unjustly, and given our own history we have a duty to stand for the people who are being treated like our parents and grandparents and children were treated.

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In our particular society, it is the narrowed and narrowing view of life that often wins.

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Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry.

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How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.

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Meditation is like the cloak of the good thief. You find a corner or somewhere where you can actually entertain your own self and your own soul, and understand what your work [is] here.

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I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.

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America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see.

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I really think admiration for nature can save us. I mean true admiration, to the point of not letting it be harmed.

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My writing is very organic. It's what I am. My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. So I think of it as something that's very essential to my being.

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Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.

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Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and a respect for strength - in search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

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Critics don't really affect the fact that we live in this paradise and what the meaning of that [is]. And what luck to have this!

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A burnt finger remember the fire.

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