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You think you may not be heard. Speak anyway.

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I'm a serious aficionada of country music - Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry. I've even written some songs. They haven't done anything of mine yet. But it's only a matter of time.

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The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library

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It's very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

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A certain person wondered why a big strong girl like me wouldn't keep a job which paid a normal salary. I took my time to lead her and to read her every page. Even minimal people can't survive on minimal wage. A certain person wondered why I wait all week for you. I didn't have the words to describe just what you do. I said you had the motion of the ocean in your walk, and when you solve my riddles you don't even have to talk.

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To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision.

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Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaking need for an unshakable God. My pretty Black brother was my Kingdom Come.

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Depending on who I am talking about or who's talking through me - if the person is a kind of hip-hop, or rhythm and blues person, or if the person is a kind of old-fashion gothic, meaning gothic attitude, then that will determine what form the poem will take.

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Be courageous, but not foolhardy. Walk proud as you are.

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Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life.

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Remember, people will judge you by your actions not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold but so does a hard-boiled egg.

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I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced forever by the New Testament. I love the Beatitudes, informing us that the meek shall inherit the earth.

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My mother raised me, and then freed me.

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I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

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Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

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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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This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth.

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When was the last time anyone ever told you how important you are?

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We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom.

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How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

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