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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

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Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.

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That knowledge humbles me, melts my bones, closes my ears, and makes my teeth rock loosely in their gums. And it also liberates me. I am a big bird winging over high mountains, down into serene valleys. I am ripples of waves on silver seas. I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.

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Everyone grows old but not everyone grows up.

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I made the decision to quit show business. Give up the skintight dresses and manicured smiles. The false concern over sentimental lyrics. I would never again work to make people smile inanely and would take on the responsibility of making them think.

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You can't get too high for somebody to bring you down.

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If you're for the right thing, you do it without thinking.

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People don't always remember what you say or even what you do, but they always remember how you make them feel.

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And I not only have the right to stand up for myself, but I have the responsibility. I can't ask somebody else to stand up for me if I won't stand up for myself. And once you stand up for yourself, you'd be surprised that people say, "Can I be of help?"

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Have a purpose to your life: Purpose does not mean having a job...You can have a job and still be unfulfilled.

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Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, "I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth." Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, "Yes, I deserve it."

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Glory falls around us as we sob a dirge of desolation on the Cross

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But from a distance. I would have left you whole and wholly for the delectation of those who wanted more and cared less.

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Each of us has that right, that possibility, to invent ourselves daily.

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I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything.

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Shelter Network's programs and services are a rainbow in the clouds for homeless children and adults.

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Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

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My entire stay there [high school] might have been time lost if it hadn't been for the unique personality of a brilliant teacher. Miss Kirwin was that rare educator who was in love with information. I will always believe that her love of teaching came not so much from her liking for students but from her desire to make sure that some of the things she knew would find repositories so that they could be shared again.

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Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.

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Food served is always more than just food served. That is to say, it is more than just fuel for the body. Depending upon who has prepared the food and who has served it and with what spirit, it can uplift the - and around the world, in every culture, food is used to flirt, to be coy, a raise in the employment or to search for employment. It can bring warring factions together.

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