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One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential.

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At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

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I do not believe that the accident of birth makes people sisters and brothers. It makes them siblings. Gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood are conditions people have to work at. It's a serious matter. You compromise, you give, you take, you stand firm, and you're relentless...And it is an investment. Sisterhood means if you happen to be in Burma and I happen to be in San Diego and I'm married to someone who is very jealous and you're married to somebody who is very possessive, if you call me in the middle of the night, I have to come.

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Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

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If funkytown was a trailerpark, this guy would be a double-wide.

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Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

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The intensity with which young people live demands that they "blank out" as often as possible.

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I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.

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The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

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If you have done the best you can do and if you have gotten all you could extract from something, you have given all you had to give, then the time has come when you can do no more than say thank you and move on.

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A story went the rounds about a San Franciscan white matron who refused to sit beside a Negro civilian on the streetcar, even after he made room for her on the seat. Her explanation was that she would not sit beside a draft dodger who was a Negro as well. She added that the least he could do was fight for his country the way her son was fighting on Iwo Jima. The story said that the man pulled his body away from the window to show an armless sleeve. He said quietly and with great dignity, "Then ask your son to look around for my arm, which I left over there.

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All riddles are blues, / And all blues are sad, / And I'm only mentioning / Some blues I've had.

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Y’all dropped the ball and you should be shamed.

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If you happen to fall in love with someone in another race, it's more difficult, because you have to translate yourself.

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I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

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Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting a person into your life.

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In order to be a mentor, and an effective one, one must care. You must care. You don't have to know how many square miles are in Idaho, you don't need to know what is the chemical makeup of chemistry, or of blood or water. Know what you know and care about the person, care about what you know and care about the person you're sharing with.

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If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

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When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.

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I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. So at this wonderful, young age of 65, I don't know yet what the Lord has for me to do. I try to live up to the energy and to the calling, but I wouldn't dare say I have even scratched the surface yet.

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