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It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

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Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future.

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I'm grateful to be an American. I am grateful that we can be angry at the terrorist assault and at the same time be intelligent enough not to hold a grudge against every Arab and every Muslim.

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Just because I am wheelchair-bound doesn't mean I don't get around.

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In so many ways, segregation shaped me, and education liberated me.

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I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it.

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You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'

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A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but a woman called by a devaluing name will only be weakened by the misnomer.

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If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you're the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you're funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

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Our stories come from our lives and from the playwright's pen, the mind of the actor, the roles we create, the artistry of life itself and the quest for peace.

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We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

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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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There's something beautiful about the fact that Obama was not just elected, but elected decisively across racial, and socio-economic and cultural groups and that we all celebrated in his win.

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The hope, the hope that lives in the breast of the black American, is just so tremendous that it overwhelms me sometimes.

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You can never be great at anything unless you love it.

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Even here in America, we felt the cool, refreshing breeze of freedom when Nelson Mandela took the seat of Presidency in his country where formerly he was not even allowed to vote. We were enlarged by tears of pride as we saw Nelson Mandela's former prison guards invited, courteously, by him to watch from the front rows his inauguration.

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We have it in us to be splendid.

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Be present in all things and thankful for all things.

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Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.

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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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