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I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

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You forgive yourself for every failure because you are trying to do the right thing. God knows that and you know it. Nobody else may know it.

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I love the song 'I Hope You Dance' by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it.

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I get up in the morning, and I'm reluctant to turn on the television.

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If it is true that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, isn't it also true a society is only as healthy as its sickest citizen and only as wealthy as its most deprived?

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Love liberates. It doesn't just hold, that's ego. Love liberates.

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I did get knocked down flat in front of the whole world, and I rose. I didn't run away - I rose right where I'd been knocked down. And then that's how you get to know yourself. You say, hmm, I can get up!

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Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less lonely by your songs, or by the empty pots made less tragic by your tales? If we were a people much given to revealing secrets, we might raise monuments and sacrifice to the memories of our poets, but slavery cured us of that weakness.

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In spite of everything that was done to me and my race, in spite of the adversity and the bitter moments, again we rise.

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In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

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Human beings are more alike than unalike, and what is true anywhere is true everywhere, yet I encourage travel to as many destinations as possible for the sake of education as well as pleasure.

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We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.

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Had I not had my grandmother, who dared to be my rainbow in the clouds, I would have been just another sexually abused barefoot black girl on the roads of Arkansas.

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The most difficult thing in the world, it seems to me, is to realize that I am a child of God; to keep that in my mind all the time.

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I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do.

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We need language to tell us who we are, how we feel, what we're capable of- to explain the pains and glory of our existence.

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If I'm here, I'll be trying to be a better human being, a better writer, a better friend and a better beloved.

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I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.

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My hope is that we develop enough courage to develop courage. To try to have, try to learn to treat each other fairly, with generosity and kindness.

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In today's climate in our country, which is sickened with the pollution of pollution, threatened with the prominence of AIDS, riddled with burgeoning racism, rife with growing huddles of the homeless, we need art and we need art in all forms. We need all methods of art to be present, everywhere present, and all the time present.

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