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To those who have given up on love: I say, "Trust life a little bit.

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I want to be representative of my race-the human race. I have a chance to show how kind we can be, how intelligent and generous we can be.

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If on Judgement Day I were summoned by St. Peter to give testimony to the used-to-be sheriff's act of kindness, I would be unable to say anything in his behalf. His confidence that my uncle and every other Black man who heard of the Klan's coming ride would scurry under their houses to hide in chicken droppings was too humiliating to hear. Without waiting for Momma's thanks, he rode out of the yard, sure that things were as they should be and that he was a gentle squire, saving those deserving serfs from the laws of the land, which he condoned.

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I think that each of us is so much alike, and yet at the same time we are so different, and I have a feeling that if you encountered difficulty, and I with my age encountered the same difficulty, I would respond one way, and you would respond another. Neither would be right or wrong. It's just that each of us is courageous, and that's what I encourage, courage, and the courage to see, and the courage to say to oneself what one has seen. Don't be in denial.

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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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The public library building, in my view, is just a little lower than the church, the cathedral, the temple, the synagogue and the mosque. Within those walls and along those stacks, I have found security and assurance.

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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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We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place where we belong and maybe the only place we really do.

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It's amazing. I can do anything. And do it well. Any good thing, I can do it. That's why I am who I am, yes, because God loves me and I'm amazed at it. I'm grateful for it.

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We are here to love each other. That is why you are alive. That is what life is for.

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I speak to the black experience, but I am always talking about the human condition.

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We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat, so that we can know who we are.

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No not me go find someone else to bring down

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The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you - black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

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It is better to control oneself, if one can, and not hit back. But on certain occasions, it is imperative to defend oneself. I don't think it's fair to ask anybody not to defend herself or himself.

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It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more alike than we are different.

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The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

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Seek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.

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I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music.

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If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up--lift her up. I would ask you, mother and father, brother and sister, lovers, mother and daughter, father and son, lift someone. The very idea of lifting someone up will lift you, as well.

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