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Some think, "If I marry this guy who's two inches taller than I am and who has a nice bank account, I won't die. If I buy six cars, I won't die. If I hate Jews, I won't die. If I hate homosexuals, I won't die." They think they will increase their life by shunting misery onto somebody else, but it's just the opposite.

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My entire stay there [high school] might have been time lost if it hadn't been for the unique personality of a brilliant teacher. Miss Kirwin was that rare educator who was in love with information. I will always believe that her love of teaching came not so much from her liking for students but from her desire to make sure that some of the things she knew would find repositories so that they could be shared again.

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Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.

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I had to trust life and believe that life loved the person who dared to live it.

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To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.

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I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

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If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult.

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The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

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The most difficult thing in the world, it seems to me, is to realize that I am a child of God; to keep that in my mind all the time.

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When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else.

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Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.

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Life loves the liver of it. You must live and life will be good to you.

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Look what you've already come through! Don't deny it. Say I'm stronger than I thought I was

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I'm a writer and writers either have good memories or nothing at all.

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It's hard because people think they have something to lose and the truth is they have everything to gain in trying to love somebody.

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Don't let the man bring you down.

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We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed.

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I also wear a hat or a very tightly pulled head tie when I write. I suppose I hope by doing that I will keep my brains from seeping out of my scalp and running in great gray blobs down my neck, into my ears, and over my face.

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The desire to reach hearts is wise

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During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.

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