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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

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While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man.

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Raising kids is like nailing Jell-O to a tree.

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Being free is being able to accept people for what they are, and not try to understand all they are or be what they are.

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I think all poems are commissioned. They just come to me without somebody outside commissioning them. The idea comes and I will live with them 'til I get it as close to what I mean. I've never been totally satisfied. I've come close a few times.

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My people had used music to soothe slavery's torment or to propitiate God, or to describe the sweetness of love and the distress of lovelessness, but I knew no race could sing and dance its way to freedom.

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Life offers us tickets to places which we have not knowingly asked for.

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

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We agreed that great men and women should be forced to live as long as possible. The reverence they enjoyed was a life sentence, which they could neither revoke nor modify.

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If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult.

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It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

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All of my history as an African-American woman, as a Jewish woman, as a Muslim woman. I'm bringing everything I ever knew, and all the stories I've read - everything good, strong, kind and powerful. I bring it all with me into every situation, and I will not allow my life to be minimized by anybody's racism or sexism or ageism.

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If you're a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don't understand talent any more than we understand electricity.

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Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don't understand but something I'm able to harness and use.

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I know something better is on the road for me.

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The breezes of the West African night were intimate and shy, licking the hair, sweeping through cotton dresses with unseemly intimacy, then disappearing into the utter blackness.

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Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it.

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She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy.

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If God put the rainbows right in the clouds themselves, each one of us in the direst and dullest and most dreaded and dreary moments can see a possibility of hope ... Each one of us has the chance to be a rainbow in somebody's cloud.

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I'm a positive thinker and actor. I look at a glass; a negative person sees the glass and says: too bad it's half empty... I look at the same glass and say: Hallelujah!! It's half full!!!

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