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I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading.

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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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You don't have to tell everything you know, but let what you do say be the truth as you understand it.

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Because of technological breakthroughs, the society will need fewer and fewer unskilled laborers.

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If you have a napkin, you need another napkin to receive back all the blessings you'll get. And you keep giving. Then you need a towel to receive all the gifts. And you continue giving. Finally, you need a tablecloth. And you continue giving - not stupidly, but you give. And when you give, you finally have to move out and get a second house, and a third house and a fourth.It is a no - fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it.

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In spite of everything that was done to me and my race, in spite of the adversity and the bitter moments, again we rise.

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I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

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Blacks concede that hurrawing, jibing, jiving, signifying, disrespecting, cursing, even outright insults might be acceptable under particular conditions, but aspersions cast against one's family call for immediate attack.

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I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy.

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I know why the caged bird sings.

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Anger is like fire. It burns all clean.

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We are not just flesh and blood. And our hungers are not going to be set aside as just flesh and blood.

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

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The honorary duty of a human being is to love.

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Each of us, famous or infamous, is a role model for somebody, and if we aren't, we should behave as though we are -- cheerful, kind, loving, courteous. Because you can be sure someone is watching and taking deliberate and diligent notes.

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The only way you can be a mark is if you want something for nothing. If you're greedy, you're set up.

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I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

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I'm a positive thinker and actor. I look at a glass; a negative person sees the glass and says: too bad it's half empty... I look at the same glass and say: Hallelujah!! It's half full!!!

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At the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.

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We are only as blind as we want to be.

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