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Mother's life flowed radiant. Flourescent-tipped waves on incoming tides.

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I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.

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I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

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Find something you like, go into a room, close the door and read it aloud. Read it aloud. Everybody in the world who likes dance can see dance, or hear music, or see art, or admire architecture - but everybody in the world uses words who is not a recluse or mute. But the writer has to take these most common things, more common than musical notes or dance positions, a writer has to take some adverbs, and verbs and nouns and ball them up together and make them bounce.

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My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

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It’s the fire in my eyes, And the flash of my teeth, The swing in my waist, And the joy in my feet. I’m a woman Phenomenally.

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As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

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I thank God that I've lived long enough to see what I have seen, and I pray that people will continue to do better. We are doing better, it may not seem so, but there was a time when people were lynched in the middle of the street and it was not against the law. We are doing better, but we have so much more to do.

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As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.

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The dread of futility has been my life-long plague.

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A Woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing. She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself

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You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it.

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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 love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

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I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

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Education is a process that goes on 'til death. The moment you see someone who knows she has found the one true way, and can call all the others false, then you know you're in the company of an ignoramus.

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I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I'm praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I'm grateful that I'm heard.

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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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In Stamps the segregation was so complete that most Black children didn't really, absolutely know what whites looked like.

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If we are honest and fair, then we are known by that. If we are not, alas, we are known by that as well. What we want to do is do right, but you have to say it, you have to show it, and not stop.

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