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Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

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When people see the laughing face, even if they're jealous of it, their burden is lightened. But do it first for yourself. Laugh and dare to try to love somebody, starting with yourself.

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Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me.

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

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We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

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This is my life. it is my one time to be me. i want to experience every good thing.

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I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life.

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My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

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My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

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The happy heart runs with the river, floats on the air, lifts to the music, soars with the eagle, hopes with the prayer.

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I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at.

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There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

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The first thing I do in the morning when I awaken is say, 'Thank you, Lord!' I'm grateful to be alive, and I'm going to try to tell the truth as well as I know and tell it as eloquently as I can so that people can hear it.

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We are loved by Love itself. There is nothing good that we can't do.

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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

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

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Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."

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

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I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I'm a human being, too. And I'm on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

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