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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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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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If you have done the best you can do and if you have gotten all you could extract from something, you have given all you had to give, then the time has come when you can do no more than say thank you and move on.

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jealousy is conceived only in insecurity and must be nourished in fear.

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When we find someone who is brave, fun, intelligent, and loving, we have to thank the universe.

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A leader sees greatness in other people. He nor she can be much of a leader if all she sees is herself.

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

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A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true.

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I'm considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I've never been bored in my life.

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I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fears and the dragons of home under one's skin, at the extreme corners of one's eyes and possibly in the gristle of the earlobe.

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But from a distance. I would have left you whole and wholly for the delectation of those who wanted more and cared less.

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A person is the product of their dreams. So make sure to dream great dreams. And then try to live your dream.

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Through the centuries, we faced down death by daring to hope.

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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 have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.

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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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I made the decision to quit show business. Give up the skintight dresses and manicured smiles. The false concern over sentimental lyrics. I would never again work to make people smile inanely and would take on the responsibility of making them think.

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If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

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Poetry gave me back my voice.

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I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.

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